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GCheng620 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

"strong" accent

Is it even correct to say that a person's accent in some language is "strong"?
From what I know of, accents can only be "heavy" as it's not a living thing to be described as "strong",
but the results I found on google make me doubtful about my own thought as there are so many web pages in which "'strong' accent" is used.
  

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Heavy and strong are both used. I prefer distinct.

— Philip

  • Heavy and strong are both used.
  • I prefer distinct.
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Heavy and strong are both used. I prefer distinct.
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GCheng620.....Is it even correct to say that a person's accent in some language is "strong"? yes
From what I know of, accents can only be "heavy" as it's not a living thing to be described as "strong" It's not true to say that only living things can be drescribed as "strong". Many nonliving
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Hello Philip's right look what I found

Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English, 2nd edition

accent noun

adjective
broad ( esp. BrE ) , heavy , marked , pronounced , strong , thick
She had a pronounced Southern ~.
slight
country , foreign , local , regional ( esp. BrE )
American , British ( AmE ) , English
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