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Well from what I ve heard the Queen used to pronounce man and men the same way Most dialects of English say them mæn and mEn respectively Here are some variations of different regions in North American English Conservative General American mæn mEn Western American English mæn mEn California vowel...

gt gt Isn t it interesting that certain forms of American pronunciation aare older than the British ones E g the short a sound in glass and pass that the Americans use was the sound used in British English till they changed it for the preferred long AH sound lt lt Yes most varieties North...

gt gt But in the US maybe it s normal to consider California English as a dialect of American English lt lt Actually it is generally just lumped into the Western dialect along with Arizona New Mexico Nevada Oregon Washington Idaho Montana Wyoming etc And yes dialects in North America now differ...

Unless you get the accent down perfectly it s unlikely that anyone will even be able to tell which dialect of English you learned For example Japanese speakers cannot make the vowel distinctions between General American and RP nor can they pronounce their final r s so they sound British RP no...

I m not quite sure I understand your symbols For one thing North American English doesn t really distinguish vowel length vowel phonemes are realized as long vowel allophones before voiced consonant phonemes in the coda of a syllable Secondly o is used in words such as hope or vote in dialects...

Englishuser wrote What s interesting is that these changes are led by younger female speakers Older speakers and male speakers adopt these kind of changes later Yes that really is interesting Why are the changes led by younger female speakers in particular What about younger male speakers...

Englishuser wrote Hi Marvin A You wrote It s associated with California English and Valley girls for the most part Valley girls It would be nice to learn something more about the Valley girl dialect accent of North American English I hope you Marvin can help me out EnglishuserIt s basically an...

The Western and Central Canadian English dialect does have several differences from conservative General American although many dialects in the US have some or all of the same features that are found in Western Central Canadian English Western Central Canadian English is actually closer to...

So what s your definition of American English or North American English as some prefer I would probably define it mostly by its phonology It would be pretty hard to define Or why not just say any dialect of English spoken in North America Is there a standard for American English Not really It s...

gt gt hat bat bad bag ad add lt lt In some dialects ad add and or bag would not work If you re learning North American English you could use the Inland North pronunciation of e for all instances of 230 Many dialects pronounce 230 as something like e or i before nasal consonants n N velar nasal...