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QuoteReplyTopic: which english accent sounds the best? Posted: 29-Jul-2011 at 20:16
Well, I finally cast my vote for Southern American English, which made it a tie!
Of course what most of you do not realize is there exists numerous Southern American dialects, but a lot of them are now very localized, and few.
But in general Southern American English is probably the most varied and historical of all N. American accents!
Vestiges of it contain 17th century English gentry accents, and N. Ireland accents, and Irish accents, and any number of relatively seperate variations of the English accents found in England or Scotland or Wales during the 17th thru the 19th centuries CE!
Variations of all of the above also exist or did exist! Plus we have the various old Spanish and French English accents, as well as a splattering of Germanic English, etc.!
And I did not even mention above the also prevalent African forms of English! Nor the Native American forms!
Before the mass emigrations of the late 19th and early 20th century, I would suggest that the Southern United States had the greatest variety of "older" English forms than any other place in America. And, for the most part, they exist until today!
The only South American country i can think of that speaks English is the Falklands. Most other places speak Spanish
Belize is the only English speaking country in SA.
"Arguing with someone who hates you or your ideas, is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter what move you make, your opponent will walk all over the board and scramble the pieces".
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Nick what Ron is speaking of is the isolation of certain areas of the Southern US caused the retention of old forms of English. Up until the 60's there were places "back in the hills" that still spoke "Elisabethan" English".
"Arguing with someone who hates you or your ideas, is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter what move you make, your opponent will walk all over the board and scramble the pieces".
Unknown.
I like the British accent. The accents of Yorkshire are distinctive. There are variations between North Riding of Yorkshire, West Riding of Yorkshire, and East Riding of Yorkshire.
I thought it curious that when the South African born Charlize Theron
picked up her best actress Oscar, she spoke in an assumed/affected 'American'
accent, rather than in her native S-A English variant..
Is this due to that natural S-A English accent - being perceived as ugly?
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