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This tag is for questions related to mutually intelligible variations within a language.
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Did regular Americans speak the way actors in the 30s and 1940s did?
Speech was a lot more varied than what was shown in the movies of the thirties and forties, particularly since those films romanticized the lives of the rich. The average citizen on the street sounde …
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Is there an American English dialect that sounds as "distingushed" as British English?
I know this is very late, but I would warn you that almost nobody in the United States speaks like that nor has spoken like that since before World War II. Generally speaking that accent mimicked man …
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New Orleans Accent
Well, if we are going by famous people the best matches for a New Orleans accent would actually be Emeril Lagasse or Winton Marsalis. They definitely speak New Orleans’s accent and yes, that dialect …
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