I have the same feeling when listening to Feynman, who has a strong New York accent. He sounds like a cab driver, not a physicist! The city vs country accent h

I have the same feeling when listening to Feynman, who has a strong New York accent. He sounds like a cab driver, not a physicist! The city vs country accent has a long historical precedent. In the time of Lysistrata, the Spartan accent was the backward sheep-shagging accent. Many english translations replaced the Spartan accent with a Scots accent. In the US it would undoubtedly be a southern accent.