All about accents: what they are, where they come from, how they work, and all the secrets they have to tell us about who we are, what we're like, and what matters most to us
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Anatomy of an Accent
The 4 Ps of accent work
Accents can be thought of as having four components. Some years back, my colleague Phil Thompson and I decided to call them The 4 Ps:
happY in Manchester
A video about 4 cool things about the Manchester happY vowel - the sound at the end of words like happy, city, Mike Somerby.
2 bonus cool things:
- Manc happY also doesn’t show any gender variation. With stable consonant variables, like...
Accent tip #7: anYbody, anYthing, everYbody, everYthing...
I tend to put this in the “fine-tuning” category. Today’s feature isn’t one of the first dozen or so things I’ll tend to teach an American working on an English accent or vice versa. It is, nevertheless, one of the most common “tells,” when...
Moroccan languages: Darija & Tamazight (teaser)
Trying something a little new. Full video in the works. Let me know what you think in the comments!
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Accent tip #6: Irish “slit” T
One of the most characteristic sounds of Irish English1 is the peculiar (to non-Irish folk) articulation of final T sounds, as in what, sit, fate. You can hear Saoirse Ronan use two very clear examples in the clip below, in out and that:
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The writers behind this newsletter.
I'm a dialect coach for movies, and I write posts (and make videos) about accents, dialects, and language.
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W. Kamau Bell is a Peabody Award winning and Emmy award-winning producer, stand-up comedian, Celebrity Jeopardy! champion, podcaster, director, part-time activist, and full-time family man from Oakland, CA.
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