Current Events > There's no such thing as an American accent

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spikethedevil posted...

Their is no such thing as a British accent. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is made up of four countries.

England.
Scotland.
Wales.
Northern Ireland.

All have their own accents and England alone has loads of accents.
What Americans insist on calling a British accent is a stereotypical English accent that next to no one has.

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I mean by that token there is no "American accent"

every region in America has a distinct way of talking

In reality the "standard American accent" we all think of is most common from like Colorado through Connecticut in that weird sorta diagonal shape

Basically any place that isn't the south, Texas, Great Lakes, Canadian border, New York/Jersey, or California uses the "standard American accent"

Edit: I'd like to correct myself and say that the whole eastern seaboard of the US has several distinctive accents so me saying "colorado to connecticut" is obviously misleading
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