General American English
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general-american-english-215-1502099
title:
General American English
text:
General American English, known in linguistics simply as General American, is the umbrella accent of American English spoken by a majority of Americans, encompassing a continuum rather than a single unified accent. It is often perceived by Americans themselves as lacking any distinctly regional, ethnic, or socioeconomic characteristics, though the term was sperad by the linguist John Samuel Kenyon, who hailed from Northeast Ohio and used speech forms there as the basis of his widely disseminated
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Accents typical of English in the US
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American_English
date created:
2002-10-14T12:55:27Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T17:36:22Z
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