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The American Culture Quiz is a weekly test of our unique national traits, trends, history and people. This time, test your knowledge of Thanksgiving pardons, parade personalities and train travel.
The American Culture Quiz is a weekly test of our unique national traits, trends, history and people. This time, test your knowledge of bucket-list monuments, fall foods and a new film announcement.
Most General American accents, but not British ones, have undergone vowel mergers before /r/: the nearer–mirror and hurry–furry mergers, and some variation of the Mary–marry–merry merger, a total three-way merger being the most common throughout North America. [18] GA accents usually have some degree of merging weak vowels.
English-language scholar William A. Kretzschmar Jr. explains in a 2004 article that the term "General American" came to refer to "a presumed most common or 'default' form of American English, especially to be distinguished from marked regional speech of New England or the South" and referring especially to speech associated with the vaguely-defined "Midwest", despite any historical or present ...
New York City English, or Metropolitan New York English, [1] is a regional dialect of American English spoken primarily in New York City and some of its surrounding metropolitan area. It is described by sociolinguist William Labov as the most recognizable regional dialect in the United States. [2]
The American Culture Quiz is a weekly test of our unique national traits, trends, history and people. This time, test your knowledge of Veterans Day, fall foods, sports and more.
Regional dialects in North America are historically the most strongly differentiated along the Eastern seaboard, due to distinctive speech patterns of urban centers of the American East Coast like Boston, New York City, and certain Southern cities, all of these accents historically noted by their London-like r-dropping (called non-rhoticity), a feature gradually receding among younger ...
This isn't the first time Harry's changing accent has made headlines. Back in 2021, the royal used terms, like "awesome" and "you guys" while recording episodes for his and Meghan's Achetypes podcast.