I have a standard American accent, what about you?
I also have an American accent. The quality of my voice and the way we pronounce our vowels and consonants is drastically different from those that speak English abroad.
Accent (sociolinguistics)
contributed to the formation of the different varieties of North American accents. It is difficult to measure or predict how long it takes an accent to form. Accents from Canada, South Africa, Australia and the US for example, developed from the combinations of different accents and languages in various societies and their effect on the various pronunciations of British settlers.
In many cases, the accents of non-English settlers from the British Isles affected the accents of the different colonies quite differently. Irish, Scottish and Welsh immigrants had accents
oi" and "ui" have multiple pronunciations that depend on adjacent consonants.
The following series of charts indicates how written vowels are "generally" pronounced. Each dialect has certain divergences from this general scheme, and may also pronounce some words in a way that does not agree with standard orthography.
Vowels Simple vowels.
Unstressed vowels are generally reduced to schwa ().
Vowels Vowels with an acute accent.
Vowels with an acute accent (known in Irish as a or ) are always pronounced long. In