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Here's how I'd say the first sentence if I put on a British accent: I must go to see my brother's new house. represents. Same for "crop".

Some things to keep in mind: ? = glottal stop @ = ə I don't know what your dialect sounds like, but I can tell you how mine differs from others: -Notice that I use lots of glottal stops (the ?). If your dialect pronounces them as "t's", then replace all the ?'s with in most other dialects--but...

Well, it depends on how you pronounce them. For example, you pronounce "go" as

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...

Do any of you have some or all of these features as well, or are they peculiar to my dialect? Here's how I pronounce some words compared to a General American accent: when and win sound identical; pin and pen do not Windy and wendy sound the same; wind and wend do not I pronounce 'set' as 'sat'...

Chameleon wrote: I would group the major english American accents thusly: SOUTHWESTERN: Texas, Arizona, New Mexico Hmm. Texas has several distinct accents: the Southern dialect; a cot-caught merged dialect with the Southern vowel shift; the Northern accent found in the large cities, and the...

Well, my dialect possesses the father-bother-don-dawn-cot-caught merger, so raw, broad, rot, dot, dog, and taught all have the same vowel sound.

CalifJim wrote: I have heard gulf pronounced only one way Really? Which way? The Southwesterners that I met tended to pronounce "ul" /@l/ as .

>> There might be dialects that you're not aware of that use and thus he started hypercorrecting himself. A North American often hypercorrects himself when putting on a British accent.