Oh whatup welcome to the better place

Okay not to play favorites bc obviously all accents are gorgeous, but you lucky duck for having one of the absolute bangers of an accent!

Yea /o/ fronting! I love it so much. Check Kate winslet in mare of east town, who actually mostly nails it (and it’s one of the most difficult dialects for an outsider to do!)

(Just hopping in to say, linguists do not call a trans-Atlantic accent a mid-Atlantic accent, which is a specific local dialect in the Baltimore / Philly area - this sounds like someone accidentally conflating the two)

An American (r pronouncing) identity. As a side note, lots of tv folks still do “accent reduction” which really just means mitigating salient local features - stuff normal ppl pick up on - but linguists for the most part will still be able to pick up less marked local features

So like comparing an actor talking with a friend vs giving a speech, before WWII they would often use more transatlantic features (like /r/ deletion) in the formal speech style. After WWII, this patterns in the opposite direction! In other words American actors started to lean more into (2/x)

Yea, trans Atlantic accent! Sociolinguistically it’s pretty superficial (like, features that are easy to adapt as an adult), mostly about /r/. One thing that I think is super interesting is that before WWII, actors would switch *into* this accent (1/x)

Which finger?

I love this

Oo! #linguistics deep cut