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NY-like pronunciation of words like "God" as "Gawd"
I have what you would call a New York accent, tempered over the course of time, and I have never pronounced "God" any other way than "Gahd" (rhymes with "cod," "rod," "odd").
I don't know... the southern dialect is about as away from "English" English as it gets. I'm going to be voting for New England on this one.
You're in fact completely wrong. The Southern dialect is the MOST similar to British standard English, due to the heavy influx of scots-Irish immigrants.
Go to rural areas of the British Isles and, linguistically speaking, there's very little variation in the accent from southern American English.
The educated, blue-blood, refined accent that most people associate with Great Britain is not the standard accent. It's as phony and manipulated as the refined American accents you hear in American movie and TV programs prior to the 1960s -- especially in the early years of Hollywood (1930s-40s) when EVERYBODY spoke in a very quick-tempo, proper, lilting accent that was FAR from the standard of the day.
What does a New England accent sound like? Isn't the same as New York?
I think these already posted by Iammius give the gist of it. The one about the Brahmin accent says it is dying but there is a more common, even broader accent still common to eastern New England, the blue collar counterpart to the Brahmin accent. It is well evidenced by the gardening expert, Roger Cook, on This Old House.
You're in fact completely wrong. The Southern dialect is the MOST similar to British standard English, due to the heavy influx of scots-Irish immigrants.
The educated, blue-blood, refined accent that most people associate with Great Britain is not the standard accent. It's as phony and manipulated as the refined American accents you hear in American movie and TV programs prior to the 1960s -- especially in the early years of Hollywood (1930s-40s) when EVERYBODY spoke in a very quick-tempo, proper, lilting accent that was FAR from the standard of the day.
The standard British dialect is an r-dropping dialect, however and maintains vowel distinctions (mary/Mary/merry), (caught/cot) for example that many American dialects have lost.
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