There's an article about accents in _Gladiator_ and voice coaching in today's Salon: http://salon.com/ent/log/2000/05/16/gladiator_accents/index.html Dr M Lynne Murphy Lecturer in Linguistics School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9QH UK phone +44-(0)1273-678844 fax +44-(0)1273-671320