By Dialects, Accents

Well, you are supposed to write about the *new* trends in Canadian English. Not the history of CE. I think that the Canadian Shift would probably be your best bet--it is a very recent innovation, and thus is one of the few features of CE that could be considered new. It also has many...

Hi there,What is known as "Received pronounciation" in the UK is seen as the "posh" way of speaking English. This is how the Queen speaks, and was the way all TV presenters had to speak a few decades ago.Nowadays, there is no standard accent for teaching children the UK, and there is no authority...

Would you trust a doctor who only spoke in broad dialect, and found it difficult to understand your posh accent?

The results of americans or australians trying to do a cockney (east london) accent is always horriffic.It forced , too strong and sounds terrible. Its bareley recogniseable.Theres a chap in this australian soap my sister watches, I saw it and commented it was very progressive for them to have...

Hello, no I am not recruting for a bosnian army I am doing a report on bosnian-american accents and dialects. If anyone who is bosnian and has learned english as a second language could talk to me and hopefully send an audio of a reading THAT would be very great!!! The report is on a DVD in...

The recording is about 50 seconds long. And I know it's of crappy quality. Could any/some English speaking people help me out? For long I've been wondering about my pronunciation, but we never ever talked about that in class (and now my school no longer offers English as subject), so I would...

I agree that Standard British and Estuary are the most used these days--but the dialect you need to learn really depends on your purposes. An actor certainly needs to work on Cockney, just because there are so many productions of Christmas Carol that demand it every year. Learning something...

I have seen something entirely unrelated to the english language, yet closely tighed to your issue. I think the influence/adoption depends on the childs connection and relation to their parents. Two of my cousins, live in the south of my country (which has got a clearly distinctive...

According to John Wells at University College London: "I do not understand the proposed distinction between Mainstream RP and Contemporary RP (unless the writer thinks, wrongly, that ‘contemporary’ means ‘young’)." You can read more of what he says about it at:...

CalifJim wrote:Rhyming friend to stand sounds peculiar to me, and somewhat Texan, perhaps. It's definitely not standard. Thanks.Well, I'm not an expert on accents... but did you listen to the audio clip? Would you say pronouncing "again" that way sounds southern? I think I've heard that...