In faultless, British-accented English, Hakim replied, "Just this one night, Arbak.

"It was like a bloody greenhouse," Mr. Salonen said between rehearsals, speaking impeccable British-accented English.

"I do wish you wouldn't call me that," the boy said, in British-accented English.

"I am very pleased to meet you, General," Peter-Paul Lowell said, in his British-accented English, as he offered his hand.

After a good five minutes, the bespectacled man smiled and said, in perfect British-accented English, "Would you prefer to speak in English?"

"From this point onward there will be gravity," she said in British-accented English.

At first the white human characters speak German until, for the convenience of the audience, they switch to Afrikaans - and British-accented English.

Once on a flight to England she listened to a tape of British-accented English, a language she found especially challenging.

A guide who spoke good, British-accented English took charge of us.

Simon de Pury, the chairman of Sotheby's Europe, presided over one of the three sessions yesterday in British-accented English.