Can American and British accents mix?

The reason is that accents form systems of pronunciation. If you mix the systems you will get a strange mixture that can sometimes be confusing. For instance, both Americans and British distinguish the words ‘hot’ and ‘heart’, but the specific pronunciations are different. In General American it’s /ɑ/ vs /ɑɹ/.

Is it possible to mix accents?

It’s not really natural for any native speaker. Sometimes you get someone who spent, say, their first ten or twelve years in Britain then moved to America, so their first accent is almost completely fixed, but has had a second accent partly overlaid on it.

What accent is a mix of American and British?

Mid-Atlantic accent
The Mid-Atlantic accent, or Transatlantic accent, is an accent of English, fashionably used by the early 20th-century American upper class and entertainment industry, which blended together features regarded as the most prestigious from both American and British English (specifically Received Pronunciation).

Is American accent the original British accent?

No, beacuse the American accent diverged from the original accent alongside the British accent and obtained it’s unique characteristics a long time after the original accent was evolved. There is also no such thing as the original accent as there where multiple accents in Britain before and after the colonisation of America.

What do Brits think of Americans?

Reality: Aside from the image of New Yorkers as too busy to care, most Brits see Americans either as very relaxed, open, and friendly people, or as loud, grating, and rude. Maybe that plays off the English stereotype of the uptight, unfriendly Brit. Either way, I was expecting everyone to be much chattier in America than they are in England.

What are the different types of American accents?

Dialect is more of a mini-language, incorporating the accent, but adding expressions and phrases unique to itself. American English can be very roughly divided into the following dialects: New England, Mid-Atlantic, Southern, Midwestern, Upper Midwestern, Western, Northwestern and Californian.

What accent does England have?

Accents and dialects vary widely across the Great Britain , Ireland and nearby smaller islands. As such, a single “British accent” does not exist. However, someone could be said to have an English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish accent, although these all have several different sub-types.