Ya, what about the people in the south western?? We don't speak the 'common southern' accent, nor the slight british ish Illinois or those states, nor New york. I think the people in the south western ish area have the more 'neutral' american:

whoa.... ur smart! i never thought of that..weird thank u

wait... what about asking for a ride/lift thing? Dont u think 'ride' makes more sense? The definition of lift is: "raise or remove to a higher position. 2 intr. go up; be raised. 3 tr. elevate to a higher plane of thought or feeling {...}" the

i also find myself messing up the way i talk because im watching to many foreign shows lol its bad. ill watch bcc and these other british shows that they show on pbs, and then ill speak the perfect british accent (in my opinion) but then sometimes

i agree with u david. and i was all pointing fingers everywhere but i finally realized whats going on and i found out whats really true. and now feel i can accept how people grew up and there ways and such be happy for me

Lots of people who live in the south western US knows Spanish or it's their native language. And in most colleges here you have to have some years in a foreign language to have a better chance of getting in, but i think they meant Spanish. In

really? then why dont we americans have british accents??? that i never understood, since all these ppl came to america and the native americans were taught english (something like that) why didnt the native americans have british accents??? why

me too

I agree with your whole post. It only makes since for someone from a country near England (who doesnt speak english) to learn british-english, for locational purposes. So with North America(maybe South) those who dont speak english will learn

r u asking about India, New Zealand, Australia, Gibraltar, Malta, Canada, etc accents or what? ive been friends with a canadian family for about 7 years now, and theres only a slight difference in how the say 'bag' (they say it like bay-g) and