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To them we DO have an accent..
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An "accent" is the sum total of the way you pronounce all the sounds in your language. I know of seven different ways to pronounce the letter "R", for example, and the way you say it marks you as American. Likewise, only French has the short "A" sound in "hat" (and it doesn't use it very often). Americans use that sound in many words where Brits and Australians make it an A. In England, "rather" rhymes with "father." In America, it rhymes with "gather." In America, we stretch out many vowels that Brits and Australians shorten and almost swallow--ask an Englishman to say "necessary" sometime. All these are features of the American accent--which is broadly subdivided into Midwestern, Northeastern, Southern, and ebonic. You don't hear your accent any more than a fish knows it's wet, but you have one.
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I think anyone not from Australia has an accent!
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because britain wasant the only country to found parts of the US. Most of europe helped to found parts of the US, bringing multiple languages togather. Did you know english was only the winnning choice, when the peolpe decided on the offical language, second was german
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americans do have accents, but i (and many other people) just think any other accent would be cooler. because british people think WE in america have accents.
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O you do have an accent. The way you pronounce things gives away your country of origin.
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Unitedstatian accent comes mostly from a mixture of different British and Irish accents. Unitestatians have features in common with the Irish, Scottish as well as archaic characteristics of English English.
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Everyone has an accent, but you will always see yourself as the "baseline" of the language. Brits think that Americans and Canadians have accents.
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Because over time, since there was such a wide space in between the countries, America developed its own accent. You could also say, why don't Northern U.S. citizens have an accent like Southern U.S. citizens?
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We have our own accent as people from the US. Just like they have an accent to us, we have an accent to them as well. We also have accents within the US. I can usually tell what state or at least what region of the country you are from right when you open your mouth! :)
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Everone has an accent.
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that is why Americans are called Americans not British and they are different from than that of British
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because we have american accent's
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When you leave America and visit ANY OTHER country, you will be the one who has the accent. Try it sometime!
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Americans DO have "accents". More often they are called "regional dialects". Boston Society has a strong regional dialect typified by leaving the "r" from "car" so it sounds like "caa". Georgia and the region tends to create artificial diphthongs, by stretching a the pronunciation into separate syllables. Texas, Ohio, Minnesota, Northern and Southern California all have regional speaking patterns, or accents.
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