The Mid-Atlantic Accent

/ jt

I found this Mid-Atlantic Accent on the Language Log awhile back and thought I’d pass it along.

 

Timeline

  • 00:00 What is the Mid-Atlantic accent?
  • 00:55 A look at classic American movies
  • 03:30 History of the Transatlantic accent
  • 08:12 What happened to the Transatlantic accent?
  • 09:21 Did Cary Grant have a Transatlantic accent?
  • 10:38 How to learn it
  • 11:37 How to speak the Transatlantic accent (tutorial)
  • 21:28 Sample dialogue ‘A Father’s Duty’ with Jack

Film clips 

  • His Girl Friday 1941 
  • The Philadelphia Story 1940 
  • The Maltese Falcon 1942 
  • The Third Man 1949 
  • All About Eve 1950 
  • The House on Haunted Hill 1959

One thought on “The Mid-Atlantic Accent”

  1. I didn’t honestly know that way of speaking had a name until a couple of days ago when I was watching reruns of Frasier and my daughter said, why do they have transatlantic accents? I said I don’t know, pretending like I knew what that even was….now I do!

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