Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25259979-20141123051622/@comment-53539-20150322004114

Adept-eX wrote: A true American Accent is ambiguous term. This is an issue stem from the different degrees of rhoticity present. In the same hindsight, you can say this also for "British accent". Just 1 mile down the road and another village, the accent changes in the UK. Though its not as tight per square mile, America has similair issues. The south and the North states of America alone have some great differences between them.

This is why we don't let people write things like "Oliver has a London accent". Because the one accent that everyone thinks is "London" is the cockney accent, which doesn't cover the ENTIRE area of London... Only those within earshot of the bells bows of a certain chapel are the origins of the accent. Heck, "pirate talk" is a british accent, since the stereotype accent origins from the west country of England. I have a great uncle who sounds like a pirate, in other words, yet he is a historian. :-/