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baronessblixen · 7 months ago

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Saw this and thought it'd be right up your alley! :DDDD

Hollywood's "Fake" Mid-Atlantic Accent DEBUNKED! (youtube.com)

That was so interesting, thank you! I knew about the Mid-Atlantic accent, but I had no idea it was supposedly invented by Skinner and Tilly. I always thought it was used by people like Cary Grant cause they were torn between British and American English - and that isn't too far off from what the guy said 😂

#lovely asks #i knew about katharine hepburn and her bryn mawr accent #and cary grant had to learn to sound american #and sounded the way he did #john barrowman is a more recent example of this #you could argue that gillian is too #though i think she can really change from one to the other

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