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Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents - (Part One) | WIRED
Dialect coach Erik Singer and several linguists tour distinct accents across English-speaking North America. It is the first part of a WIRED series on US accents.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as an enjoyable overview of American accents and what accent signals socially.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- WIRED
- Topic
- american accents
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2025
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Really good article. For those interested in this sort of thing, wired did a pretty good series on accents in the US recently on youtube: [VIDEO] [LINK] [LINK]
AbsoluteDestiny on Hacker News · 2021-05
In The Pin-Pen Merger (2020)If folks find accents interesting, I loved this video which does a tour of US accents. Part 1: [VIDEO] (Okracoke Island is at 13:40) Part 2: [LINK]
tstrimple on Hacker News · 2025-03
In The US island that speaks Elizabethan English
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