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How to use accents in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word accents? Here are some examples.

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The order of presentation of the speakers was constructed to avoid grouping of similar accents, gender and appearances.
He could always tell a new immigrant, and he could prove it by their weak English and thick accents.
It takes a few secs to adjust to the unfamiliar Indian customs and British accents, but once you do, you're hooked.
Strictly speaking, not even the vowels are phonologically autonomous in most accents of English.
Yesterday my band played another show in our Beatle wigs and fake English accents, at the Hotel Vancouver.
There were many beautiful voices but no accents that related to the folk in the local chip shops.
The meter, complexity of rhythms created by dotted rhythms, triplets and irregular accents manifest the spirit of Korean peasant dance and music.
Rachmaninoff indicates that the tenor carries the melody by placing accents over each of its notes.
The weight came from accents and the interpretation's fire, not from thick orchestral playing or slow tempos.
There are sharp pizzicato accents everywhere, and once again, leave it to David Finckel to look like he is having the time of his life.
The rich tone and strong accents of Gabriel Beavers's solo bassoon were striking.
Or consider the college piano student, carefully groomed to taper each Mozartean phrase just so, and deliver sharp accents in Bartok.
The composer's intentions may be notated as dots, dashes, accents, and slurs.
The use of unpredictable accents also can add to the rhythmic complexity of a musical work.
As in the accented baseline condition, the two kinds of accents emphasized the same tones.
In the typical mix of femininity and sporty styling, such accents emphasize a modern femininity.
Golden yellow and rich brown hues accompany fresh floral accents and ruggedly attractive iron light fixtures.
The fairy was about four inches tall and had jet black hair with ice blue eyes and a shimmering white dress with pale blue accents.
Architectural accents from a variety of periods enhance the notion of a sprawling rancheria evolving and expanding through the decade.
Both in fact were non-rhotic, while the majority of Americans speak with rhotic accents.
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Mercifully, they have more or less avoided the affected, fake English accents that plagued the sub-genre.
The only description he was able to provide was that they spoke with Afro-Caribbean accents and were around 5ft 7in tall.
I have this facility with accents because I grew up with Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Ecuadoreans, Salvadorans and Argentines.
Public stairways throughout are stainless steel with brushed aluminum accents.
Students with upper crust English accents and preppy shirts air-kiss before descending on Edinburgh's Rick's Bar for cocktails.
Automotive Industries recently was shown a more potent Stratus, stripped of its chrome accents but also devoid of any wings or air dams.
How many European elections are contested by foreigners with foreign accents?
Southampton dock was positively buzzing, the mix of different accents and the curses of the dockworkers sounded like music to her delicate ears.
Ferns are especially handsome as accents among swaths of lower-growing plants such as sweet woodruff or oxalis or growing beside ponds.
The soap videos provide both a glimpse of popular British culture and useful exposure to regional accents and idioms.
The accent was ranked in the bottom half of the 34 regional accents surveyed.
The days when you could recognise a person's origins by their rich and diverse regional accents are regretfully slipping away.
There is the same comic contrast between the characters' unbridled enthusiasm and their dowdy clothing and heavy Eastern European accents.
The ads feature plummy accents and British World War Two-era design and symbolism from the home front movement.
We were told to stay off the street by long-suffering national guardsmen and women with southern accents, kids.
A mere six actors played all the protagonists, and the accents used were convincing and amazingly different.
It's nice, though, that the majority of accents I hear around me are not English or American.
Dialects could soon disappear altogether as accents in urban areas merge into one.
The association's conference hall was awash with plummy accents and tweed jackets.
Instead, he decided that anachronism would be a major theme and encouraged the actors to avoid affecting British accents.
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Though things improve, Serkin, lyrical in the outer movements, spoils the andante with heavy accents.
Gourmet joints would rather treat foodies to a fresh flush of exotic scents, swivelling sounds, wavy hues and crispy accents.
They have a new, contemporary edge and are being used as accents or on single focal walls in a room.
This programme will use satellite technology to reflect the diversity of accents and colour of communities across Wales.
On the school bus, though, Nina and Zina chafe under the teasing and finger-pointing about their foreign accents and clothes.
The ensemble cast is bold and enthusiastic, and carries off the accents required of the script with great aplomb.
The lovely album, for instance, sees new accents improving a song, rather than confusing it.
It's also great fun listening out for all the dinkum Aussie accents amongst the talented cast.
Varieties such as Little Gem are available for smaller gardens and as accents.
You don't hear many Liverpudlian accents on TV, at least not in a position of authority.
Silver stitching accents the leather steering wheel, door fabric, seats, grab handle, door pulls and dash vent rings.
No subtitles are present to assist, although they would be welcome when the Australian accents are prevalent.
The dark mahogany paneling and russet carpeting complemented each other while the brass ornaments and paintings were beautiful accents.
Speakers use their local accents as a means of affirming identity and loyalty to local groups.
That night I was aboard the Kottur og Stulka preparing lutefisk for 90 burly sailors with fairy tale accents and tattoos of anchors.
The accents are at times difficult to understand but add to the appeal of the production and transform Synge's dialogue into lyrical poetry.
He has a very good range, from dynamic accents to the most subtle, tossed-off fill.
Strands of faux pearls, hand-painted ladies' lapel pins, and other jeweled accents amplify the theme of the day.
White flowers, like feverfew, are one of her favorite accents in the garden.
Also, American audiences and Sassenachs will be bemused by the strong accents.
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The three of them are going at it in rapid-fire Picard accents, I can barely understand it so long as I don't attempt to actually speak.
Instead, American viewers will have to strain to make out whole words from the constant babble of wild sound and West Indian accents.
And there is something very patronising about people with posh accents telling working-class people that their windows are too dirty.
Bronze-foliaged plants such as hop bush, phormiums, and purple smoke tree are cooling accents.
I'll have more to say about how it differs from General American and other English accents in this section.
Yet Chinese body language, mannerisms and accents are about as similar to Japanese as Australians are to the Scots.
His media appearances are categorised by barely audible mumblings in one of the thickest Scouse accents you've ever heard.
Vaudevillian attempts at wacky accents and screwball banter lack rhythm and come off as flat as week-old pop.
He excels at accents, impersonations, double-talk, vocal sound effects, mime, and extruded flutter-tonguing to make flutists envious.
From their accents, it was apparent that they'd come down from Scotland to take part in the event.
The English language is spoken throughout Scotland, but Scottish accents are strongly divergent from those in England.
She sings and shows a lot of cleavage and a clinging black sequined gown accents her shapely gams.
Another thing that I observed is that so many of the settlers have American accents.
We import British creative ideas, slap some American accents on the actors and pass it off as fresh and original programming.
In fact, entertainers have become versatile mimics of accents they weren't born with.
Nights of research, practicing accents, roles and dances, were exquisite torture.
Curiously it's metropolitans in Belfast and Dublin who are the most ready to put on cod Fermanagh accents.
Many local accents are marked by a rhythm that tends to lengthen stressed vowels and to reduce or eliminate unstressed short vowels.
And they specialize in a sort of ceremonial tristesse that colors their writing with wan accents of pain, grief, mourning and death.
For all the mockney accents and geezer lingo, an assortment of mens-wear sales assistants would be more threatening than this bunch.
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If they're truly interested in speaking with one voice then it's inevitable that the accents will start to fade over time.
They stopped to give me a lift, ignoring me as I sat in the back, and they continued talking in their strange, gentle, dulcet accents.
They, like the lower urban class, tend to speak Turkish with regional accents and grammatical peculiarities.
The accents may be English, albeit with a twang, but the influences are Australian.
It's not easy to see just what determines which accents will seem disgusting to someone, and which will seem merely exotic or even attractive.
Potted miniature palms and gilded accents adorned the sinuously curving handrails, just beckoning for a slide down.
Some ensembles shimmered with metallic accents, while others popped in bubblegum pink.
The Canadian accents were presented with clarity, but occasionally muffled.
Originally, the aluminum skin of the building was not supposed to have color accents, says Stern.
Jones's accents are mostly right, but her diverse body language and multifarious material are always spot-on.
If it's a grave it slants from bottom left to top right, as grave accents tend to.
To build up these images, Martinelli apparently rendered the basic architecture in heavy lines and then added curlicued and curved accents.
Why do Americans think that the English accents are either really posh or cockney?
These fabrics had a linen weave with slub accents, and came in deep earthy colors as well as soft blues, greens, khakis and peach.
Welch used a combination of blackleaf and English scroll with gold borders and accents to decorate the bottom metal and triggerguard.
I forever cringe at the fake Tennessee accents that somehow burst out of small-town Alberta.
If it was an A-line cocktail dress with a dusting of floral accents, it would have been a much better fit within the overall collection.
Jean's fragrant snowbell accents a corner of the house and scents the air around the bench with its springtime blooms.
This went well for a while, but eventually the accents of the invaders just really got on their nerves and they were asked to leave.
He that will not respond to its accents, and strain every nerve to carry into effect its provisions, is unworthy of the name of free man.
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The era of the all-seated stadium had been ushered in by a number of tragic accents at grounds.
Shimmering waves of washes, glistening tones, and bell accents establish the somber mood.
It works efficiently as a basic color and can be worn with pastels or brights as accents.
A restored brougham can command a high price at market, since it often includes many handmade components and accents.
She had an excellent ear for accents and individual styles of speech, but otherwise did not alter her voice drastically.
Guns blaze, accents become foreign and inconsistent, and scantily clad women argue about who gets the top bunk bed.
Time passes slowly as the cast expend most of their energy on dodgy accents, very little on the performances and none at all on picking up cues.
The script of sand and fog is more like it, not to mention the acting of ham and funny accents.
The two young East Enders looked and sounded for all the world like a couple of skinhead soccer fans, cockney accents and all.
They cluster in the short midday shadows of the coconut grove, where the steamy air softens even the icy cadences of their accents.
A wood-block stamp dipped in fabric paint leaves an ethnic-looking tattoo with turquoise bead accents.
Of course, he could be simply practicing the fine ear for accents that is the hallmark of any truly great actor.
Do you know how hard it is to do accents and voices and obscenities, and make them sound brilliant and funny?
He adds great accents and steady rhythm, demonstrating that a human can match a drum machine.
Surrounding each image is a hand-painted, distressed border with decorative accents.
Filthy rich honorary Kentucky Colonels, regal in their old money, white suits and Foghorn Leghorn accents, abound at this event.
The yellow ochre stippled walls inside and the cream with green accents outside on the verandah all help to produce a warm and inviting ambience.
The vocals are delivered in thick accents, making the band stand out from the crowd.
Most of the black and Asian blokes appeared to have Manc accents but a lot of the white blokes sounded cockney to me.
In speaking the academic discourse of philosophy, the debaters have lost their discursive, if not their literal, accents.
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She got into a pastel pink dress with burgundy accents around the hem and neckline and went to see her father.
All but tansy have grey leaves, which makes them useful accents in ornamental gardens.
Another simple pergola of 2x3 stringers and tapered cross supports accents a path from the street to the home's side entrance.
His dainty hesitative accents had a nice elegance, but elegance is not what this concerto is about.
Despite that, Jameson said American TV executives appeared to prefer that the show be overdubbed for their market with all-English accents.
Despite being in English, the film is subtitled, presumably to aid the audience in coping with the heavy accents and unfamiliar idioms.
Glitter accents add a touch of sparkle to this merlot strapless charmeuse dress.
While you're waiting for new episodes, you can still get your fix with this latest supercut of her funniest impressions and accents.
The night stands, wardrobes, armoires, chifforobes, and dressers feature brass-finish hardware which accents the warm, classic cherry finish.
Simple black and white colors with Chinese red and blue accents are most common in this theme.
Some of my favorite albums consist of campfire singalongs by bands with modest acoustic guitar chops, cute names and even cuter accents.
Add to this the stunning choreography and authentic Swedish accents and your back in the good old days.
Where British accents are required, the actors do a passable job, though they sound more mid-Atlantic than Manchester.
You can mix it all up, iambic, hexameter, off-rhymes, scats, raps and syncopated accents.
These works are delicate and loose, with washy grounds and linear accents, bits of cross-hatching and curving organic shapes.
He pronounced every syllable, and he did the accents convincingly but not cornily.
While in trance, Eileen's voice always changed markedly to the accents of the discarnate being speaking through her.
Our French photographers swooped in, coaxing her into fun, flattering clothes and complimenting her in their soothing accents.
Because it was the English alphabet that was the standard, only a very few non-English accents and diacritics could be handled.
Some of these have involved minutely detailed descriptions of snare drum accents and eight-to-the-bar boogie-woogie rhythms.
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He has brought back the doctrines of Calvinism in all their inveteracy, and relaxed the inveteracy of his northern accents.
Colours are powdered pastels, warm naturals, primary colours and unusual accents.
And is there anywhere in the world with a greater diversity of accents than London?
The annual meeting of China's legislature is a jamboree of regional accents and languages.
Primarily, however, I notice the sheer multiplicity of accents, languages and ethnic types jostling for space in those sweaty Tube carriages.
But the five Americans also manage highly creditable regional or class accents.
The whole country was a mixture of different languages and accents back then, especially in the rural areas.
Yet, although we share the same language, English accents still confuse the locals.
With some exceptions, strong regional or Spanish accents are associated with working-class status.
And a beautiful thing, for me, was that most spoke with foreign accents and in foreign languages.
Furthermore, the narrator speaks with the words, accents, and intonations of Golyadkin himself.
These aren't imported words with genuine umlauts, but retrospective accents denoting a junked hyphen as in microorganisms or coordinated.
It's a neat trick to have a way to spell words containing both nasalization and crucially important tone without any accents or funny letters.
Little accents, little umlauts, tiny apostrophes like snowflakes sting her cheeks.
I don't think I grasped much of the concept of where to place accents in the Spanish language, but oh well.
Modern Greek also retains from the ancient language a system of three pitch accents.
Why do the normal keyboard letter combinations for eg French accents not work in comments boxes?
The accents and other diacritical marks we now use to write ancient Greek are comparatively late inventions.
Syncopated staccato accents gradually drop into place on top of an extended droning chord.
Tempos tend to be driving, and accents tend to be emphatic, strengthening the similarities between Schumann and Beethoven.
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It is important for you not to put too many accents or ornaments in the room because it can make the small living room become much more incapacious.
Dafoe, Keitel, and most of the other actors, have distinctly American accents, and the script itself avoids archaisms in favor of an informal, almost modern sound.
Although they have studied English for four years, one of the biggest problems they face when they come here is just getting used to our accents and our colloquialisms.
Prior to learning the notes, students need to tap and count the rhythm, incorporating all accents and dynamics, with the metronome set to the eighth note.
Classic echo and dub treatments infuse the songs alongside submersively deep bass, snare hits, basic hi-hat patterns, and offbeat keyboard accents.
She wears a tiara made of sterling silver, with Diamonds, Amethysts, and Sapphire flowers, with Alexandrite in the middle, and Pearls around the flowers as accents.
The accents are Oklahoman and Texan, and they come not just from expatriates of the Dust Bowl states but also from their California-born children and grandchildren.
The gardens emphasize native plants, perennials and trees, with accents provided by soft hues of roses, oleander, rhododendrons, agapanthus and more.
Badges hanging from their necks boast small national flags, and a cacophony of accents represents more than 20 countries.
The men all had Irish accents and one was referred to Jon Jon.
However, all phoneticians and linguists agree that the widely held view that many accents are corruptions of a pure pronunciation has no scientific basis whatsoever.
Words are mispronounced, accents are horribly wrong, and the acting is no more convincing than an elementary school play put on at Christmas by Grade 4 kids.
It had an empire waist and lace accents on the sleeves and neckline.
The Venetian has gondolas with gondoliers who imitate Italian accents.
Many accents of English are said to display mainly stress-timed rhythm.
And, of course, the girls starring in the ads will be flying the flag for Manchester, with their traditional Mancunian accents and northern charm.
However, on the train and tube, I heard lots of northern accents.
Ex-Tampa families will soon have Strine accents and vocabularies.
She grew up in Soviet Moscow, a supposedly monolingual society, but she remembers noticing and being fascinated by the range of accents and speech patterns she heard.
The melange of languages and accents was as varied as the faces.
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Amid the chatter of diners in Lakeland's restaurants and hotels, observant customers may have noticed the prevalence of Eastern European accents ringing out among the staff.
The orthography requires both accents above and dots below certain letters, and getting this rendered correctly on the web without special fonts remains a bit chancy.
If there was a flaw in the production it was the New York accents, which sounded British and artificial and might best have been left unattempted.
Designers often use glass tiles as decorative accents in backsplashes, showers, pool borders, floors, and even on the risers between stair treads.
Inside, the instrument panel surfaces are low gloss, with attractive graining, chrome and woodgrain accents and soft-touch plastic or paint feel in most areas.
The cast change costumes, accents and personas manically and heroically.
Wealthy middle-aged American women, with bright red lipstick, black Cleopatra hairstyles and accents similar to Sandton kugels swamped the gardens, clicking digital cameras.
The opening night performance showed signs of strain as Doyle flubbed some lines, performance energy dipped and Scottish accents slipped in and out of authentic focus.
Maria and the other woman tending bar both have rust-belt accents.
But these pretty guys are much more cosmopolitan than just being Aussies, and they don't just speak with Australian accents, however it may sound to the undiscerning ear.
Local stories, accents, and images are drowned out by a multi-channel bombardment of glossy programming, bearing little resemblance to the Caribbean experience.
I did put together the first of two photo galleries at the weekend, but on its completion I realised with horror that I had mixed up my acute and my grave accents.
Because of the similarity of American and Canadian accents, English Canadians travelling abroad are virtually resigned to being taken for Americans.
There are some characters in the movie who speak with heavy Jamaican accents or in heavily accented slang that I found hard to understand at times.
The offenders are described as two white males, with English accents.
Right throughout the site the exotic mix of the country's accents filled the air, mingled with the scent of quarter-pounders frying and regular PA announcements.
A few more sentences and I recognised those honeyed accents.
Only federer could wear a white sports windbreaker with gold accents, or a belt on his shorts, or even pink shoelaces.
Oh, and people with unpleasantly posh Home Counties accents who speak far louder than they need to in an enclosed space should probably be gagged with gaffer tape.
There were many UK accents to be heard, including that of mine host Bobby, who with partner Pat, had taken over this side of the hotel just one month ago.
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Melaleucas and bottlebrushes make excellent screening plants, stand-alone specimens and accents among other native species such as banksias and grevilleas.
The home accents are embellished with an antique effect with the help of a variety of plating like bronze, silver, nickel, chrome, pewter and black nickel.
They are full of exquisite period details, from the accents to the frocks.
Their funny accents and one impressively ginger beard make this video even better.
His blond hair with its strange, upwards-aiming parting, accents his extremely pale skin, which has the appearance of being even paler than usual.
He has one of those over the top Parisian accents you hear in the movies.
Her accents were pretty flawless, even in the most emotionally fraught scenes, but when you are in a class of your own, the critics are that much fiercer.
The distinction between the old grave and acute accents were a help to children and learners to help them pronounce a word which they encountered for the first time.
Unrelenting tosh, it mixes dodgy accents with over-ripe dialogue, hammy performances and the kind of pell-mell pace that leaves little room for subtlety or reflection.
But could southerners understand their broad Yorkshire accents?
It sounds like my friends and I are bunch of characters from Oliver Twist sitting around the table with cockney accents begging for more porridge.
English accents are not limited to cockney, upper-class twit or Mancunian.
His marimba and vibes contribute further percussive accents, and the intricate multiple meters and contrapuntal figures add up to a rhythmic feast for the listener.
Classic English country styling featuring parquet veneer tops, cast resin accents and square spindle legs are just a handful of elements found in the Bristol Collection.
Scottish accents could still be heard amid the Australian babel, but the immigrants were far outnumbered by the Australian-born claiming Scots origin.
How else could you have forgotten the skinny leather ties, impossible post-Ted pompadours, and endlessly layered synthesizers over fake English accents?
Nevertheless, when that outlandish bird, attacked by the cat, shrieked for help in human accents, she ran out into the yard stopping her ears, and did not prevent the crime.
Sorry, I didn't know how to use MS Word to put all the other accents, that is, the curvy ones, the marks that go below the letters, the grave accents, and so on.
As I listen to the TV hosts jackhammering over the soft Southern accents of the guests, I appraise butts.
He stood with three mechanics, all of whom had Cajun accents.
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Each character is hideously depicted via limp dialogue, grating accents, silly lisps, unnatural body movements, and an overall disagreeable personality.
They became so brown and shriveled that they looked like walking beef jerky with New York accents.
And in a movie that's a decathlon of bad acting and worse accents, she can out pole-vault, run, shotput and triple-jump the very worst this movie can throw up.
The benefits to the city could well continue long after the fashionable hats, toppers, tailcoats and cut-glass accents have gone back to more familiar haunts further south.
Musicality enables dancers to groove to a beat, follow a delicate melody, or syncopate their movement with nuanced accents.
A phrase exhibits proofs of cacography, when the accents are misplaced, forgotten, or used erroneously.
We copy instinctively the voices of our companions, their accents, and their modes of pronunciation.
He nursed bottled water and listened to the accents, the stories, the craic.
And finally, I have omitted the fadas, or accents, from all Irish words, since they are no help to a North American reader.
There are many accents that are traditionally thought of as London accents.
It also has some history in the beginnings of Received Pronunciation and southern England accents.
Contact between English and immigrant languages has given rise to new accents and dialects.
In early 1944, he moved to Los Alamos, New Mexico, with his wife and their twins, who now spoke with Canadian accents.
Although there are many French regional accents, foreign learners normally use only one variety of the language.
Although he was quite capable of affecting accents from outside the M25, he always steered clear of doing so.
One notable feature which television producers have been apt to overlook is the distinction between Coventry and Birmingham accents.
At the time, Caine's working class Cockney, just as with The Beatles' Liverpudlian accents, stood out to American and British audiences alike.
Areas close to the border with Cheshire can have Scouse accents of English, and along the coast Manchester accents are common.
It has generally been considered one of the most recognizable accents within American English.
Other regions of Wallonia also have characteristic accents, often linked to the regional language.
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While other British English accents have affected the accents of English in Wales, influence has moved in both directions.
In fact, by this stage they were singing in English, but McGee didn't realise because their Welsh accents were so strong.
As a result, Londoners speak with a mixture of accents, depending on ethnicity, neighbourhood, class, age, upbringing, and sundry other factors.
New Zealand English is similar to Australian English and many speakers from the Northern Hemisphere are unable to tell the accents apart.
Newfoundland English is any of several accents and dialects of English found in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Others have contracted syllable sequences, causing accents to shift or vowels to become long.
Attitudes towards southern accents, particularly the Cantonese accent, range from disdain to admiration.
For a summary of the differences between accents, see International Phonetic Alphabet chart for English dialects.
While many of the Lancashire accents may sound similar to outsiders, the exception is the 'Scouse' accent, as spoken in Liverpool.
Highland English accents are more strongly influenced by Scottish Gaelic than other forms of Scottish English.
The North Wales accent is distinct from South Wales and north east Wales is influenced by Scouse and Cheshire accents.
The Ulster accent has two main sub accents, namely Mid Ulster English and Ulster Scots.
To outsiders, the accent has resemblances to the accents of South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
A range of accents can be seen, with the majority of Coloureds showing a strong Afrikaans inflection.
Tsonga and Venda speakers have very similar accents with far less intonation than Ngunis and Sothos.
For the classification of varieties of English in terms of pronunciation only, see Regional accents of English.
Although there are many different dialects and accents, the transcription would be fairly standard.
Irish, Scottish and Welsh immigrants had accents which greatly affected the vowel pronunciation of certain areas of Australia and Canada.
Certain accents are perceived to carry more prestige in a society than other accents.
However, in linguistics, there is no differentiation among accents in regard to their prestige, aesthetics, or correctness.
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Speakers with certain accents often experience discrimination in housing and employment.
Negative evaluations may reflect the prejudices rather than real issues with understanding accents.
In the United States, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on national origin, implying accents.
For example, in Disney animated films mothers and fathers typically speak with white middle class American or English accents.
English accents in Disney animated films are frequently employed to serve one of two purposes, slapstick comedy or evil genius.
General American is commonly promoted as preferable to more evidently regional accents and is regarded as prestigious.
Although based solely on RP and GenAm, the Standard Lexical Sets have proven useful in describing many other accents of English.
Into the 1980s, residents of villages in northern Nova Scotia could identify themselves by dialects and accents distinctive to their village.
It shares most similarity with other Southern Hemisphere accents, in particular New Zealand English.
The broad, general and cultivated accents form a continuum that reflects minute variations in the Australian accent.
The growth and dominance of general Australian accents perhaps reflects its prominence on radio and television during the late 20th century.
English accents vary considerably depending on region and local ethnic influences.
In other accents, such as varieties of Caribbean English, Nigerian English, and Liberian English, such pairs are indeed merged.
Several writers have argued that Estuary English is not a discrete accent distinct from the accents of the London area.
It is also associated with some American English accents in the New York City area.
Variably rhotic accents comprise much of Caribbean English, for example, as spoken in Tobago, Guyana, Antigua and Barbuda, and the Bahamas.
Such a quality is also found in the accents of northern England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and the Caribbean.
Prior to becoming a phonologically unified dialect region, the South was once home to an array of much more diverse accents at the local level.
The English language spoken and written in England encompasses a diverse range of accents and dialects.
There are many different accents and dialects throughout England and people are often very proud of their local accent or dialect.
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Since the 1960s regional accents have become increasingly accepted in mainstream media, and are frequently heard on radio and television.
Porridge featured London and Cumberland accents, and The Likely Lads featured north east England.
The programmes of Carla Lane such as The Liver Birds and Bread featured Scouse accents.
The influence of Irish and Welsh migrants, combined with European accents, contributed to a distinctive local Liverpool accent.
Also, later rock bands such as Oasis, Joy Division, and The Stone Roses had distinct Manchester accents.
Less well known outside of the area, and with pronounced local accents, are local broadcasters Eamonn O'Neal, Mike Sweeney and Jimmy Wagg.
Several of the show's cast members do speak with pronounced Mancunian accents in the series.
Like all Northern accents, Mancunians have no distinction between the STRUT and FOOT vowels or the TRAP and BATH vowels.
South Atlantic English and the accents of England's Fens feature it as well.
There are several American English accents spoken in the region, including New England English and its derivative known as the Boston accent.
The Boston accent and those accents closely related to it cover eastern Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine.
His characters speak like real people and sound distinctively American, using local dialects, newly invented words, and regional accents.
The Survey of English Dialects identified many different accents in Yorkshire.
Some features of Yorkshire pronunciation are general features of northern English accents.
Many of them are listed in the northern English accents section on the English English page.
A number of popular bands hail from Yorkshire and have distinctive Yorkshire accents.
Some accents reveal the distinctive bray of the upper crust, but most are generic middle class.
London and Southeastern English accents have variable Yod dropping and Yod coalescence.
Hosking with his pleasant voice and the mildest of Australian accents is perfect for this classic favorite of mystery aficionados.
It's mostly about earthy, creamy, slowly cooked white beans with accents of pancetta, roasted winter squash, and rosemary.

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