text: He fell ill and fainted at home and was taken to Square Hospital Ltd at around 7:15pm on Tuesday, where doctors pronounced him dead, his son Syed Nasif Maksud confirmed.
  Beginning his career as a journalist with the weekly Nobojug in 1964, Abul Maksud received the Bangla Academy Award in 1995 for his contributions to Bangla literature.
  He joined the national news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) in 1971 and left the editorial section of the agency in 2008.
  His observations on various social, political, cultural and economic issues at different times have appeared through his columns published in several newspapers.
  Author Anisul Hoque in a column published on January 7, 2016 stated that Syed Abul Maksud had started wearing two pieces of white cloth without stitches as a protest at the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, under the false assumption of Iraq storing weapons of mass destruction.
  President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina mourned his death on Tuesday, and offered their deepest condolences to his family.
  State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, Information Minister Hasan Mahmud and BSS Board of Directors Chairman AAMS Arefin Siddique also offered their condolences, among others.
  
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  Subject was born and raised until age 7 in Gloucester. She then moved to Norton, Presteigne, Powys, Wales, where she was living at the time of this recording.
  In the recording, the subject speaks of the possible influence of her mother’s Liverpool origins and of the border Welsh she has been surrounded by since age 7. She doesn’t believe that either has played a significant role in shaping her dialect.
  I was born in Chalford in Gloucester. Um, we moved to Wales when I was 7. Um, I attended a Welsh-speaking school where Welsh was compulsory, um, but in the area not many people speak Welsh, but it was still a lesson we had to learn. Um, and then I left school at the age of 11 or 12, went to secondary school; um, was there ’til I was 16 and then to college where I studied history, photography, French, and, um — what was the other one? — and English. Um, then I decided to go university in Swansea, um, where I study American studies. Um, I have, I’m very fond of voice acting, um, even though I study quite atypical, like, history/literature course. I’ve always wanted to do voice acting and cartoon animation, um, and doing this course I wanted to see where it would take me and see what I could learn as well. Um, OK, so I have two brothers and two sisters, mum and dad; um, I’m the middle child, so I have an older brother, older sister, younger brother, younger sister.
  I’d like to talk about my accent, um, as in, like, in explain, explain it. I guess I pronounce things, um, like, as in comparison to my friends, they’ll say, some will say “bath” or “grass,” whereas I say “bath” and “grass.” Um, um, my parents’ accents are, well, I would say I don’t really notice a difference in mine and theirs, except I think my mum can sometimes break out into like a Scouse accent sometimes, um, and I think my dad – I never really noticed an accent except for what like I sounds like, um, but, yeah, and think the same with the rest of us; um, so my older brother, I think, because he goes to Bangor in Wales; he speaks fluent Welsh, so he sometimes has like a Welsh twang in some things he says, but I think the rest of us have got, my older, my older sister and younger brother go to Bristol University, so I’m not sure if they’ve picked up back any kind of, I don’t know, Bristol accents or anything. I’m not sure, but, just, yeah, sounds kind of similar to mine, I thought.
  The subject speaks contemporary RP with little influence from any of the vernacular accents in either Gloucester or Powys. In contrast to the conservative RP taught at drama schools to actors (and well described in The Standard British English dialect by this author and in the Received Pronunciation Special Collection on this site), she exhibits some interesting contemporary sounds. For example, notice the occasional lack of lip-rounding in the GOOSE lexical set; the lack of alveolar contact for post-vocalic /l/; the occasional glottalization of final /t/; the sounding of the /g/ in /ing/ word endings; and, perhaps under the influence of her mother’s Liverpool origins, the rounding of the vowel in the STRUT lexical set.
  
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