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Arvin, I am in the production of " Steel Magnolias"...a play that is set in Louisiana in the 1980's. An all women cast. The play has been made into a motion picture. We are going to be using an accent and I was wondering if you would be able to help me with the dialect etc.......

The monotonic quality of the standard (flat) American accent (my own) makes me long for the intonations and inflections of British (or Celtic) English. Much more amenable to dramatic or poetric expression. In the hands of the right speaker, music. I suppose you could say that about a few American...

And Oi loike Oztrai'jen English best - it just sounds keol. *** American English (resp. Western and Northern American accents) is pretty easy for me to understand while Southern accents and Eastern accents I find more difficult. British English sounds rather posh sometimes and...

KYsheeplover06 wrote: Has anyone else ever noticed that if someone speaks with a Southern American accent, people automatically think they're not as intelligent as they'd normally think. I know it's true in some places, because I speak with a thick southern accent, and it's almost as if some...

Sorry for disturbing u all here: I'd like to know why are u so interestend in American accent? I mean: we 're talking in English. Isn't English native language of Great Britain's people? And if so, is it right to say that real English is British English? Here in Italy, people from south speak...

No offense Trevor, but your post comes off a bit insular, isolationist and ignorant. Why the heck would an American's inability to distinguish between British and Australian accents mean they have a different idea of what constitutes an accent? If anything, that should suggest that American's...

Hiya. I've only been to the U.S. once and it's a shame, because I can't help but think that the full range of american accents are less than well represented on British T.V, which is the only genre through which most of us get to hear them. In any case, to anyone wondering whether they'd...

American Pronunciation can be pretty varied; there's a bunch of different regional ways to speak American English. I live about 80 miles north of Philadelphia. I've found there's a distinct South New Jersey/Philly 'twang', a Chicago one, one from New York, a Boston/New England, a few different...

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: Young children who have not yet mastered the...

All languages change and develop over time, with new words being added and different meanings being applied. English has changed just as much as American english from what the language was like in the 18th century - no one goes around talking like Charles Dickens or Jane Austen anymore. naturally...