American Accent

[Brainwalter]

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We Americans don't pronounce our "T"s at all. We pronounce them closer to d's.

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Time has a hard T. Bottle doesn't.

[Chump Change]

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We Americans don't pronounce our "T"s at all. We pronounce them closer to d's.

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Time has a hard T. Bottle doesn't.

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Did you ever see 'six degrees of separation'?

'Not boddle, bot-tle. Bot-tle of beer'

[jokerthief]

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We Americans don't pronounce our "T"s at all. We pronounce them closer to d's.

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Does that mean that you pronounce your name "dik"?

[Roy Munson]

We Americans do pronounce our T's. It is New Yorkers who choose to pronounce their T's as D's. New Yorker's also don't pronounce their R's unless they add them to the end of a word with a vowel that doesn't have an R.

[Shoot59]

on a sidenote...what happens to accents when people start singing?? (bands like inxs, u2, def leppard, jet) Anybody else notice how the accent doesnt really come through in the songs (as opposed to interviews and such)

[Runkmud]

I think Dominic West who plays Jimmy McNulty in The Wire does a pretty great job of covering up his accent as well.

[LionelHutz00]

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I think Dominic West who plays Jimmy McNulty in The Wire does a pretty great job of covering up his accent as well.

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No [censored] way. He's the only British actor whose British accent is noticeable when he's playing an American character. It cracks me up every time he slips into the British accent, because no other British actor does it, which leads me to believe that an American accent is probably pretty easy to imitate.

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I find most accents easy to mimic but american is suprisingly hard to keep up, (i am australian), I can interestingly enough sought of mimic different chinese accents (in chinese).

[miajag]

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on a sidenote...what happens to accents when people start singing?? (bands like inxs, u2, def leppard, jet) Anybody else notice how the accent doesnt really come through in the songs (as opposed to interviews and such)

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I've noticed this too. I thought all bands were American till I was like 16.

[acoustix]

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on a sidenote...what happens to accents when people start singing?? (bands like inxs, u2, def leppard, jet) Anybody else notice how the accent doesnt really come through in the songs (as opposed to interviews and such)

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I've noticed this too. I thought all bands were American till I was like 16.

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You can hear the accent in a lot of Pink Floyd songs though. Altough, they are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head that do show the accent.