Which accent is more nasal ?

0 In my opinion, any nasal vowel is AmEnglish... 02br
00I can't help you for the other questions, sorry... 0-

0 Would you please specify which English words or letters need the nasal pronunciation 02br
00in General American English . Is General American English the same as Standard 02br
00American ? I'm interested in western american / californian - which has 02br
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0 I'm afraid I'm not the right person to answer accurately, since I'm Belgian/French! 02br
00There are at least 3 Am mods here, so wait til one reads your thread. 050010id1

0 Midwestern American is very nasal. Like Chicago or Wisconsin. Take it from me, I'm from there! 02br
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0 There's nasal and then there's nasal. There are no nasal vowels in English, whether British or American, particularly when compared with the nasal vowels of French, say. Still, some listeners feel that American English is somehow more nasal. I don't hear it that way. Individual speakers may pronounce certain vowels more nasally than others (perhaps the lax "a", for example, especially when

0Occitan is very nasal.. 050010id60

0" but the language as a whole is not characterized by nasality. " - How would a Californian pronounce " according " ? I've seen in some movie that the character was pronouncing the a in according very much nasally . Is there any general rule for nasality ? For example , is the " a " in 02br
00" cancer " nasal ? 02br
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00Occi..occii..wha..occitan ? what's th

0 The "a" in "according" is a schwa in all varieties of English that I am familiar with, certainly in California. 02br
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00Some speakers do have a tendency to "tighten" the lax 'a' sound (as in 'cancer'), which causes the impression of nasality, or in some cases 01i00is02i00 nasality when an 'n' follows. I don't know with any certainty whether these

Without a doubt American English 'A' as well as many other letters are far more nasal than British English.
British English is concise, described even as 'sharp' (in a good sense) or 'hard'. (see Wiki 'Renounced pronunciation')
Increasingly British people are finding certain American accents harder to understand, it is almost as though they either have very bad colds or cocaine habits..:

British and International speakers of English tend to say the 'A' with an uplift while the American usage is long giving rise to the historical usage of the word 'drawl' to reflect North American pronunciation.
This tendency is expressed in many other letters of the alphabet.