In Difference between^x, American accents^x, Consonants^x

I want to ask 2 questions about pronunciation first: 1) Do Americans say /use- d / or /use- t / in used to? 2) I saw Ann Cook wrote this in American Accent course: If the first consonant is voiced, the next one will be as well. If the first one is unvoiced, the second one will sound...

No offense Trevor, but your post comes off a bit insular, isolationist and ignorant. Why the heck would an American's inability to distinguish between British and Australian accents mean they have a different idea of what constitutes an accent? If anything, that should suggest that American's...