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Subject: Re: Re: British English/American English - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 6-Aug-84 04:46:00 EDT
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Many English singers sing English songs with an English accent... I would
even venture to say that most of them do.  The quality of their music is none
the worse for that.  Well-known examples include the Beatles (Harrison,
McCartney, Lennon), Jethro Tull (Ian Anderson), Pink Floyd (Wright, Mason,
Gilmour, Waters), the Who (well, Townshend, anyway), the Monkees, the Kinks,
the Rolling Stones (earlier albums), etc.

Some of these and other singers Americanize their accents to some extent;
most seem to revert back to their native accents in live concerts.

Remember that saying "cant" instead of "c-ah-nt" and "fast" instead of
"f-ah-st" does not make the accent American.  The British accent can be
distinguished in so many other ways... try "around", "got", "record" (n.),
etc., which differ in the pronunciation of the vowels.  Then there are
differences in consonant sounds, as in "winter", "chatter", etc.  Of course,
there are differences in delivery too.

The point is that the accents which sound American to some people are
actually only Americanized to varying degrees.  Some people also tend to
associate the English accent with (only) the educated London area accent,
forgetting that there are many different English accents just like there are
different American accents, so that anything non-educated-London sounds
non-English to them.