Re: [NTLK] OT - Do you speak BBC English?

Ack! You're right. It's Iowa, Nebraska, and central Illinois.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American

The point, though, is that the "general American accent" is supposed
to be devoid of regional markers, and apparently folks from that part
of that use sound, to people from elsewhere in the US, as if they have
no accent at all.

On 9/2/07, Martin Joseph <NT@stillnewt.org> wrote:
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> On Sep 2, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Scott Rogers wrote:
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> > Yeah. The ideal American "accent" is something like Tom Brokaw's. A
> > sort of midwestern Ohio-ish way of speaking.
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> Actually I think Johnny Carson and his Nebraska rearing is the
> american standard. Brokaw has a speach impediment.
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> Marty
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