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Is there a 1950's American accent?
Listening to old recordings, there is a distinct accent that radio and television announcers used that is different from a modern-day "Standard American" or neutral accent. It seems that over the ...
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What is a West Coast (U.S.) accent?
I've seen references to the American Midwest as being the home of the least accented form of American English. I always think of the Northern Midwest as having an accent that I associate with ...
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use of contractions (and some homophones)
Is it true that the current usage and spelling of words like we're/were, there/they're/their, your/you're, etc. is shifting? I heard that in the next generation the apostrophe may be disappearing in ...
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Is there a difference between the phrases “I am fine with it” and “it is fine with me”?
In my experience there has been a diachronic split between these phrases:
It is fine with me.
I am fine with it.
The latter has overtaken the former in usage although they continue to ...
