Anonymous wrote the following post at 20-01-2006 11:03 PM: It is incredibly idiotic to critisize the US for not having as many different accents as the UK. The US has a lot of accents considering all the factors. Accents don't develop

It is incredibly idiotic to critisize the US for not having as many different accents as the UK. The US has a lot of accents considering all the factors. Accents don't develop overnight. Colonists didn't start settling here until the 1600s and the

I've heard (say, in some British songs) the following pronunciation: the vowel in "got" was pronounced in a sort of ... where a similar thing could happen, say "pot", "stop", etc. I mean I didn't notice it in

Sorry, this will probably be a really long post. My mission? To dispell false notions about American English First, we do NOT say "drug" as the past tense of "drag." It's dragged! There are only three kinds of Americans who would say this:

Good to see you're back Grace. I think I would definitely say that I am happy with Americans who are easy to understand and British people with no heavy local accent. So long as the billion people or more who speak English can understand each

What's a "Standard American" dialect? From California? West Virginia? New York? Black? White? Hispanic? Only BizarroRayWise will insist that we have a counterpart to RP. But I'd say the closest thing to a Standard American

In regard to the comment on Americans not having the variety or plethora of accents present in the UK, I have a mixed response. Part of me wants to be angry because that is a pretty ignorant statement, but another part wants to agree with you for

Hi, can anyone tell me why a lot of British people tend to suddenly adopt an American accent when singing? ... accent, even they are not spoken that way, and nobody seems to notice it or have a problem with it. Well, I love RP (they say I can

Hi, can anyone tell me why a lot of British people tend to suddenly adopt an American accent when singing? Words like "can't" and "after" are suddenly pronounced with an American accent, even they are not spoken that way,

I think that the British people sound somewhat "American" when singing because when they speak, their consonants are much more harder than in the American accent(s) but when singing you just have to somewhat soften the consonants... I'm neither