by Abbey on Sun Sep 01, 2002 1:28 pm
I'm interested to know what everyone considers a standard American accent. There is such a wide variety (Southern, Mid-Western, Brooklyn, West Coast, "Hick," etc.) that is seems impossible to standardize it. And going back to the Canadian accents, I've noticed that many of us Americans living near the border do pick up a bit of their dialect. I regularly use "eh", "aboot" and other distinctly Canadian expressions subconsciously in my conversations... That could actually be the worst dialect to listen to, I am now thinking- a "twangy, American accent" with Canadian slang thrown in-scary combination!
Oh, and going waaay back in the posts, to St Andrews recruiting students overseas, yes it does happen. They don't ever come to my state, but my friend in California attended a seminar with a representative. And the amount of tuition paid does seem to constitute a large part of it- overseas students pay about 11,000 pounds per year.