New York is distinctly different from Boston, is distinctly different from Northern Maine, and very different from Pennsylvania. Then we’ve got southern drawl, white trash, we’ve got Minnesotian, midwest, east coast, west coast, western, Texan…
At least, as far as the accents that we put in movies and TV and media that we send abroad.
Plus the media also has one universal accent that covers all Indigenous Americans. Black actors get two extra accent options, “inner city” and “French immigrant”.
A lot of those are great! And yes, it sounds like a lot of variety until you look at how many more distinct accents the UK packs into an area a fraction of the size.
My own accent comes pretty much out of Seattle and it’s always struck me as terribly boring and flat, very news anchor-y. I like the ones that have distinctiveness above all - British, American, or otherwise.
People are weird about accents. I only wish there was more variety in American accents, if anything. Some of them are charming.
New York is distinctly different from Boston, is distinctly different from Northern Maine, and very different from Pennsylvania. Then we’ve got southern drawl, white trash, we’ve got Minnesotian, midwest, east coast, west coast, western, Texan…
At least, as far as the accents that we put in movies and TV and media that we send abroad.
Plus the media also has one universal accent that covers all Indigenous Americans. Black actors get two extra accent options, “inner city” and “French immigrant”.
A lot of those are great! And yes, it sounds like a lot of variety until you look at how many more distinct accents the UK packs into an area a fraction of the size.
My own accent comes pretty much out of Seattle and it’s always struck me as terribly boring and flat, very news anchor-y. I like the ones that have distinctiveness above all - British, American, or otherwise.
A lot to do with the history there.
Britain has a long history of isolated villages…America, not so much.
We might cone up with something worse than American southern accents.
I grew up in Wisconsin and never heard bag-le. We say bay-gil. But the NW part of the state is a bit unique and basically MN.
im assuming that by “bag-le” you mean a pronounciation like “sadly” but the “b” and “g” of bag
as opposed to by “bay-gil” like “fable”
wtf
What do you call a seagull at the bay?
A bagle.
That’s how we pronounce it in the Northeast, at least. Wisconsin, as I understand, doesn’t have seas or bays, so that joke may not really land…
Wisconsin has a massive bay, made widely known across the states by their NFL team, Green Bay.
I think I’d genuinely rather hear a southern drawl over a Wisconsin twang. Have you heard how they pronounce bagel? The worst!