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  2. Comparison of American and British English - Wikipedia

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    Several pronunciation patterns contrast American and British English accents. The following lists a few common ones. Most American accents are rhotic, preserving the historical /r/ phoneme in all contexts, while most British accents of England and Wales are non-rhotic, only preserving this sound before vowels but dropping it in all other contexts; thus, farmer rhymes with llama for Brits but ...

  3. Regional accents of English - Wikipedia

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    The Malaysian accent appears to be a melding of British, Chinese, Tamil, and Malay influences. Many Malaysians adopt different accents and usages depending on the situation. For example, an office worker may speak with less colloquialism and with a more British accent on the job than with friends or while out shopping.

  4. Mid-Atlantic accent - Wikipedia

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    Any accent of English, including more recent ones, perceived as a mixture of American and British English, and often perceived as incorporating the prestige speech of one or both countries; Mid-Atlantic accent may also refer to: Philadelphia English, the dialect spoken in the Mid-Atlantic region (Delaware Valley) of the United States

  5. Rhoticity in English - Wikipedia

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    The loss of postvocalic /r/ in the British prestige standard in the late 18th and the early 19th centuries influenced the American port cities with close connections to Britain, which caused upper-class pronunciation to become non-rhotic in many Eastern and Southern port cities such as New York City, Boston, Alexandria, Charleston, and Savannah. [9]

  6. Why Learning to Understand Unfamiliar Accents May Save ... - AOL

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    English may be the international language of business, but the dizzying variety of accents despite the common language inevitably lead to communication problems. While the usual solution has been ...

  7. American and British English pronunciation differences

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    Differences in pronunciation between American English (AmE) and British English (BrE) can be divided into . differences in accent (i.e. phoneme inventory and realisation).See differences between General American and Received Pronunciation for the standard accents in the United States and Britain; for information about other accents see regional accents of English.

  8. Why Gillian Anderson Has an American and British Accent - AOL

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    You may not have known, but Gillian Anderson is bidialectal.The 52-year-old The Crown actress was born in Chicago and moved to London when she was 5. When she was 11, she moved back to the United ...

  9. Is Gillian Anderson's real accent British or American? The ...

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    Anderson can effortlessly use both an American and a British accent because she spent time in both countries growing up. She was born in Chicago and moved to London at age 5, according to The Guardian