By Numbers, Accents

It really depends on the individual. I've met several people that moved to the US from non-English speaking countries when they were 15 or 16 and have a perfect American accent. I've also met a fair number of people that moved to the US in their early-mid twenties and have very minimal...

Hi Kooyeen, I grew up in New England, where they used to say the "Boston" accent was the purest, but now that I'm in California, Boston really sounds dumb. If I understand T-tapping, I'd answer, "no." I was taught to say "arithmetic" with a full...

Hi Kooyeen, I grew up in New England, where they used to say the "Boston" accent was the purest, but now that I'm in California, Boston really sounds dumb. If I understand T-tapping, I'd answer, "no." I was taught to say "arithmetic" with a full...

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Hi, according the British rules it isn't correct to use can't, there is only cannot. This is not accurate. Most Britons use the contracted form "can't" in rapid and informal speech. The British pronunciation differs somewhat between different British accents, the RP norm is /kɑː nt/. there is...

Anonymous wrote: Could you please, check if all the sentences below are correct ? a) In the end of the week, my friend returned home; b) After the visit, my friends told me that my country impressed them most; c) The sport classes take me lots of time! (or:...take lots of my time) ?; d) ...

Here is the script: The Beatles were an English group of musicians from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. They are one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music. and their influence...

Dear all, All passages below are from “Crazy English” – by Richard Lederer, POCKET BOOKS. (I tried to find an Internet link, but failed. So please pardon me for the length of the text, which I believe would be very informative). “HETERONYMS – words with same spelling as other words but...

According to John Wells at University College London: "I do not understand the proposed distinction between Mainstream RP and Contemporary RP (unless the writer thinks, wrongly, that ‘contemporary’ means ‘young’)." You can read more of what he says about it at:...

English is one of the two official languages spoken in Malta. The accent is different as with the Australian American etc. Look at the different local accents in each of those.countries. I taught in England for many years and certainly found no great difference to the English spoken in Malta bar...