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Quirrell Posted 10 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation
Pronunciation difference
Do people in New England and Alabama speak differently? Are their pronunciation that different? I thought all Americans speak like Anderson on CNN but apparently that seems not true.
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The standard accent in English in the US is the mid-west accent, like the one Anderson Cooper on CNN has. There are several areas in the US that have quite heavy accents. There is the southern accent found in Alabama and its surrounding states.
- The standard accent in English in the US is the mid-west accent, like the one Anderson Cooper on CNN has.
- There are several areas in the US that have quite heavy accents.
- There is the southern accent found in Alabama and its surrounding states.
- There is a specific East Texas accent.
- President Kennedy had a heavy New England accent.
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The standard accent in English in the US is the mid-west accent, like the one Anderson Cooper on CNN has. There are several areas in the US that have quite heavy accents. There is the southern accent found in Alabama and its surrounding states. There is a specific East Texas accent. President Kennedy had a heavy New England accent. For the most part, almost all fluent US speakers of English can ea
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quirrellDo people in New England and Alabama speak differently?Yes. There are a few regional accents in the United States. They are mostly mutually intelligible, but I confess that I was once in a situation where I was unable to understand someone who spoke with a thick Brooklyn accent. There were a few sentences I was unable to understand a word of, even
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