Having only been raised in America, I sometimes hear British people talking about American accents. I can't possibly comprehend what an American "accent" sounds like, since to me American English has no accent. (I realize that there are separate dialects depending on what part of the U.S. people are from, like the Midwest or Southeast or North or wherever). I recognize British accents, where words are clipped and vowels are longer, or an Australian one, where words are longer and vowels are clipped, but what precisely defines an American accent? Do we have completely different sounds for different letters? Are we drawing the vowels out longer or shorter? What do we sound like to British or Australian people?
2006-10-18
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