I hate to be the spanner in the works here, but this subject is near and dear to my heart. As most of you know, I am an American working in Greece. The majority of Greeks in Greece insist on the innate superiority of British English to American

Students and employers should be reminded that people with English and American accents understand each other without difficulty, which implies that the differences in accent between them are quite small. A student learning English needs to be

This supposed "Standard American English accent" sounds like a variation on the now rarely-used term "General American": From the dictionary at www.infoplease.com , which appears to be the *Random House Webster's Unabridged

Yes, but why do American dictionaries choose *my* pronunciation oversomeone from Alabama, or Massachusetts, or Wisconsin? There are glaring anddrastic differences in pronunciation from region to region. Not sure if this helps, but from

Well, of course, pure IPA is far too powerful for a dictionary, except to distinguish dialect. A decent phonemic notation ... has different vowels in British and American English, but 'man' doesn't. Can I find this out in an American

"Joseph Andorfer" (Email Removed) wrote on 08 Jan 2004: There are regional, educational and ethnic differences, but the majority of American-born, highschool-educated speakers of American English as a first language who have normal