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The International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA) is a free, online archive of primary-source dialect and accent recordings of the English language. The archive was founded by Paul Meier in 1998 at the University of Kansas and includes hundreds of recordings of English speakers throughout the world.
A Mid-Atlantic accent, [1] [2] [3] or Transatlantic accent, [4] [5] [6] is a consciously learned accent of English promoted in some American courses on acting, voice, and elocution, largely in the Northeastern United States, from the early to mid-20th century.
The 2010 "Larry King Live" video shows off his apparent Slovenian accent; ... "That audio of Barron Trump saying 'I like my sootcase' sends me every time." "Barron Trump has the opportunity to do ...
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 ...
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Barron, who turned 18 this year, is the president-elect's youngest son and only child with wife, former supermodel Melania Trump. He has four half-siblings: Donald Trump Jr., 46, Ivanka Trump, 43 ...
Barron isn’t the only Trump bound for university. Last month, Kai Trump, Donald Trump’s granddaughter, said she verbally committed to playing golf at the University of Miami, a top-ranked program.
The early 20th-century accent of the Inland North was the basis for the term "General American", [6] [7] though the regional accent has since altered, due to the Northern Cities Vowel Shift: its now-defining chain shift of vowels that began in the 1930s or possibly earlier. [8]