Question: if the TOEFL is about American English, why does the speaker have that accent? Because it's not about American English! It should be about making sure that foreign students who want to attend a university in the USA can cope

I noticed that this question is tagged as unanswered. Received pronunciation is so named because it was 'received by', i.e. taught to public school pupils and RADA pupils. ( RADA = Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts ). You can hear example in

I just love american accent.. always spoke US English.. is it easier to understand than British accent?.. well.. i think here's how everyone got used.. i have a friend who speaks British Eng, and even she was in US and lived there for a while, she

Someone in this group may already have asked the question below, but I've been wondering. I was nosing around in one of the topics here (on teaching in Italy) and noticed a teacher complaining that he had to learn formal grammar in order to

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A complete change of subject, but I figure you'll read ... other SAs I've met had much milder, more British, accents. Bikers have different accents from the rest of us, umm, shall I rephrase that... My son recently became a biker. He says

See, I'd say dough was (d@U) and d'oh was (doU). www.wordreference.com agrees with me on dough, although it seems not all AmE speakers do this. In current dictionaries by the Oxford University Press, the RP "long 'o'" is

a vote? here. Worldwide, though, among native speakers, the rhotics clearly are winning (NTTARWT). Do you have a basis for this assertion? And what does NTTARWT mean? Course they are, as that's the natural default position of the English

People in the neighbouring town to me (Darien CT) started ... turns out that it stands for "High School Building Committee". Speaking of Darien, I was recently watching the film Auntie Mame (1958) and there's a scene where Rosalind