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Everyone has an accent. Do you mean that you speak General American (i.e. the North East non-coastal accent)?
by verbify 11y ago
Everyone has an accent. Do you mean that you speak General American (i.e. the North East non-coastal accent)?
- baddox 11y agoOf course you're technically correct, but I find it quite common for Americans to understand that "no accent" refers to General American, even if they're not aware of the term "General American."
- verbify 11y agoIt's not just pedantics. I live in the UK, and some people who speak something between Received Pronunciation and the BBC accent also think they have no accent. People can't hear their own accents and presume they don't have any.
- baddox 11y agoBut this is more than just my bias for my own accent (which is very close to GA). When I meet other Americans with other regional accents, they will often describe me as having "no accent."