I hate to be the spanner in the works here, but this subject is near and dear to my heart. ... (don't get me wrong), but the prejudice is much stronger against Those Who Have Come From Across The Great Waters. I still maintain that our

If you tell me the name of the program, I can tell you how PROnounce is different. Almost all the major language learning PC software titles use template-based pronunciation analysis. Such systems often score people worse for missing the exact

No, not entirely. But then, if you consider modern USAmerican ... Yiddish, and American Spanish, but also the many immigrant languages. I've always felt that many American accents reflect aspects of the regional accents in the areas the

In part, after adding the Celtic countries, it has to ... and some of them you won't find at all. Mike. Or, taking the other way 'round, some American accents started out as varieties of some English/Celtic accents, and then improved. Or

Is it possible that the American accent is a variety of English accent? In part, after adding the Celtic countries, it has to be. But you won't find all the original pieces in the same place, and some of them you won't find at all. Mike.

Is it possible that the American accent is a variety of English accent? In part, after adding the Celtic countries, it has to be. But you won't find all the original pieces in the same place, and some of them you won't find at all. Mike.

. Same applies to some 'Americanisms', which are just preservations: ... "Forward, Ho-o!", while QE2's respond only to "Quick, March!" Mike. Is it possible that the American accent is a variety of English accent? In

. Same applies to some 'Americanisms', which are just preservations: Shakespeare's soldiers move out on the command "Forward, Ho-o!", while QE2's respond only to "Quick, March!" Mike. Is it possible that the

Pilot's Certificate attached. Invisible on my server. Will I email it, John? (Acktually, it was sortah of a test. I dint think itda get through atoll.) Charles Riggs - Primarily northeast US upbringing,thus having an American accent and having

Or not. At least not as far as I, with MacSoup and the German server, can see. German server here, although no MacSoup (is that like McNestrone or McLigatawny?) and a whopping 80,000-line binary came sailing ... sure that was just a licence,