The Guardian, December 10, 2014, "Lobsters, rabies and wardrobe malfunctions: stars on their school plays" by Jenny Stevens

Nina Wadia I played Bert the chimney sweep in Mary Poppins when I was 11: the brush was taller than I was, I had braces, short rolled up trousers. The “chim chim-in-ey” song? That was my big number. I went to an expat school in Hong Kong and I was the only Indian girl in the class. So there I was, with this very strong Indian accent, trying to copy Dick Van Dyke cockney.

Codheads vs Cod-Cockney

Yahoo News, February 25, 2016, "The People Of Grimsby Slate Sacha Baron Cohen's Accent In New Movie."

In a somewhat poetic case of getting their own back after being lampooned by the comedian’s latest character, the beer-swilling hooligan Nobby, he’s been dubbed 'the new Dick Van Dyke’, akin to the star’s cod-Cockney twang in 'Mary Poppins’.

Gor Blimey, Siri!

Macworld, April 25, 2016, "Apple Siri vs Microsoft Cortana vs Google Now vs Amazon Echo Alexa: Which is the best voice control technology?" by Cliff Joseph

If you've got a really strong regional accent, or something like Dick Van Dyke's legendary cockney accent from Mary Poppins then you might get the occasional "Sorry, I didn't catch that." As it happens, I am a genuine cockernee myself, and it was only OK Google that understood my exaggerated "Cor blimey, guvnor!" when I tried a Dick Van Dyke impression as a test.

Squeek, G'vnr

 GQ, May 24, 2016 , "Call Of Duty is dead. Long live Overwatch" by James Ramsay

Colour, humour, character, joy. All things that have been sorely missing from the FPS genre of late. Instead of a nameless infantry grunt, you play as one of 21 heroes - all unique, all capable of radically changing the outcome of a firefight. There's McCree the gun-slinging cowboy who can pick off enemies with his magnum. Or pick Tracer, who can rewind time and sounds like Dick Van Dyke’s cockney accent on helium.

I Got Stuck in a Chimney

Not exactly a DVD accent reference, but what the hell. 

The Guardian, December 19, 2014, Experience: I got stuck in a chimney, by Leo Wan.

"After that, someone posted a picture of Dick Van Dyke on my Facebook wall."

A comic about DVD

This comic is great!

Mary Pulpfictions

CBS News, December 18, 2013, "Pulp Fiction," "Mary Poppins" added to National Film Registry, by David Morgan.

I'll have a lot more to say in the new year. I really should go see "Saving Mr. Banks" if I want to take this blog seriously, I suppose.