In Dialects^x, American English^x

Which dialect of English do you speak, Marvin?Western North American English.

/mAr\oU/ doesn't make sense Well, see, she only speaks English not Italian, so when she sees the word Mauro, in English, "au" is often pronounced as /A/* for example: audience, auction, she assumes that "Mauro" should have the /A/ vowel. The "r" of course is pronounced as a retroflex "r" of...

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:

Shouldn't apostrophe be used here ... American English's dialects ... No. 99% of the time, the apostrophe is used on word or set of words that refers to a person or persons. American English is not a person, of course! CJ

Nona The Brit wrote: Less than 5% of British people speak RP. Stephen Fry, for one ("Jeeves").

This is a bit of a myth. There was never a single British accent for American to be 'nearer' to. The short a sound still features in a lot of English accents. Less than 5% of British people speak RP.

>> 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. << Yes, most...

I would say that the American English dialects and the British English dialects form two "super-dialects" (or varieties) of the same language: English.CJ This kind of sentences always bother me but today I have a chance to ask about this problem. CJ said, ''...the American English...

Marius Hancu wrote:According to Wikipedia, I was wrong: --------American EnglishAmerican English (AmE, AE) is the dialect of the English language usedmostly in the United States of America. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English--------See also:--------British...

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.