… but it’s in 18th-Century England where they’d really feel at home.
Americans today pronounce some words more like Shakespeare than Brits do…
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It's fascinating to watch early Hollywood films from the 30s and 40s, where some American actors appear to be speaking with nearly, but not quite British accents.
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It's fascinating to watch early Hollywood films from the 30s and 40s, where some American actors appear to be speaking with nearly, but not quite British accents.
Yes, like William Powell and Myrna Loy in The Thin Man movies (if you don't know them, do try to see them) and the incomparable Fred Astaire or Katharine Hepburn films. The accent was supposed to be upper class American. Not sure where THAT concept came from.
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If you've ever wanted to tell a Brit to "get off your R's," you will appreciate this discussion of rhoticity vs non-rhoticity.
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