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| ===Pacific=== | | ===Pacific=== |
| A kind of "Transatlantic accent", inspired by Californian + Modern RP/Estuary.
| | Same as our American accent |
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| Intonation: American + RP
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| =====Vocab=====
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| Mostly like our American English, with a limited number of Britishisms: ''knackered, mental, bollocks, bugger, fancy, ...'' the ones I sorta-know how to use
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| =====Vowels=====
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| *orange = [oːɹəndʒ]
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| *Mary-merry-marry merger
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| *Mirror-nearer merger
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| *Hurry-furry merger
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| *No mergers before /l/
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| *No trap-bath split
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| *No yod-coalescence
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| =====Consonants=====
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| *L is light [l] before vowels and dark [ɫ] otherwise, as in RP.
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| **wholly-holy split.
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| *No glottal reinforcement before stops.
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| */p t k/ are unaspirated after stressed syllables as in AmE.
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| */d t/ has a tapped [ɾ] allophone in similar environments as in American English.
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| *wine-whine merger present.
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| *CLOTH = THOUGHT
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| ===Standard European=== | | ===Standard European=== |