America alone has five distinct regional accents and even more subtle variations throughout those regions.
I have a Southern New England accent, for instance. It’s like a Boston accent but much less pronounced.
For example, I say “wahk the dog” instead of “walk the dog.” A Bostonian, however, would say “Wahk the dahg.” The ‘ah’ sound actually is like a weird cross between an ‘o’ and an ‘a’ and is seamless from the ‘w’ sound.
Yeah we’ve got a lot of different accents, we’re weird like that.
Essentially from what I gathered, the VA has a rather posh sounding voice, who… you would say it’s a posh lady doing a cockney accent.
As an American it feels like our accents are little less confusing than British ones. We’ve got the North, North East, and South. I haven’t really noticed anything too different from the northern accents from the people who live over on the west though. Then there’s Montana which is like it’s own thing.
I’m from the south so I know most of the different variations of the southern accent, it actually sounds not far off from British accents at times to be honest. The southern accent can almost degrade down to a low mumble and I almost can’t understand what they’re saying. Our accents though don’t feel nearly as diverse as British accents do though, it also surprises me how there’s a ton of variation in it within such a small distance.
I personally don’t like the can vs can’t of american accent when comparing with British accent, but you are right about less confusing than British accent.
Also have you guys notice about the difference in wording? Like biscuit VS something. I reckon this isn’t part of “accent”?
It is indeed cockney.
Biscuit and Cookie. Yeah I’ve noticed things like that.
American Biscuit:
http://www.cboldcountrystore.com/~/media/crackerbarrel/recipes/recipe-biscuit-201-207400_imgd.jpg
American Cookie:
The American Biscuit is a British Scone (pronounced either S-gone, or wrong)
The American Cookie we also call a Cookie, but if it’s a small one it falls under a wider category of Biscuits
I googled “British biscuit” when searching for the images above and saw a mixture of cookies, but definitely a lot of things like you said like this image, but we still refer to them as cookies:
Almost all the ones in that picture are biscuits here, but none are cookies, it’s just the ones like in your first post that are cookies. Looking at that picture I see:
Bourbons (the chocolate ones)
Custard Creams (the fat rectangles with diamonds on)
Fig Rolls (not actually biscuits, the ones with the black inner)
Malted Milk (the rectangular one with the diagonal line border)
Fruit Shortcake (the round ones, those are raisins not chocolate, not to be trusted /s)
It’s definitely a London accent with hints of cockney (east London)