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  2. Mid-Atlantic accent - Wikipedia

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    Mid-Atlantic accent, [1] [2] [3] or Transatlantic accent, [4] [5] [6] is an accent used by American stage and cinema actors in the 19th and 20th centuries. The terms may also refer to the distinct but similar-sounding accent of English spoken by certain upper-class people in vicinity of New York City and New England, sometimes termed the Northeastern elite accent.

  3. North American English regional phonology - Wikipedia

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    A General American accent is not a specific well-defined standard English in the way that Received Pronunciation (RP) has historically been the standard prestigious variant of the English language in England; rather, accents with a variety of features can all be perceived by Americans as "General American" so long as they lack certain ...

  4. Northern American English - Wikipedia

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    In 1988, the documentary American Tongues featured interviews with two Brahmin speakers who then estimated that were about 1000 of them left. Notable example speakers included many members of the Kennedy family, including President John F. Kennedy, whose accent is not an ordinary Boston accent so much as a "tony Harvard accent". [24]

  5. English-language accents in film - Wikipedia

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    Dialect coach Robert Easton said the Mid-Atlantic accent was "too semi-British" and opted for General American. Easton commended British actors in learning American accents, "[They] in general are very open to doing whatever is necessary to create the character, not only in terms of dialect, but in terms of body language, mannerisms and so forth.

  6. Older Southern American English - Wikipedia

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    One such example accent feature is the "r-dropping" (or non-rhoticity) of the late 18th and early 19th century, resulting in the similar r-dropping found in these American areas during the cultural "Old South". Contrarily, in Southern areas away from the major coasts and plantations (like Appalachia), on certain isolated islands, and variously ...

  7. General American English - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

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