In Dialects^x, Whom^x, Accents^x

Some people will even get a sort of neutral accent that has all of the unusual parts removed. The Western US accent was actually formed like that, because speakers from the North, Midlands, and South, all moved to the West, and their accents intermingled and the Western accent was sort of a...

Mjcbrown wrote : Unlike as in Germany, regional accents have been retained by the working classes and now are still distinctive of the working class and as such bear a "working class" stigma . Presumably this means "retained only by the working classes", otherwise it could be interpreted as...