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Example sentences for: accent

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If you have heard the name of Canada's prime minister (Jean Chrétien) pronounced correctly, or if you are sufficiently acquainted with French to know this fairly common name (which means Christian), you do not need to know that an acute accent is usually put over an e to indicate that it is a long e in an unstressed syllable.
); Jamie Shea ("Each week the Nato press spokesman with a Cockney accent has been forced to explain away an array of Nato mistakes--in English and French.
Experts estimate that about two thirds of the American people, living on about 80 per cent of the land area speak this dialect—or with this accent, if one prefers that term.
He spoke in an engaging nebbishy Bronx-Jewish accent that was always a shock to hear--like the voice of the unmasked Wizard of Oz, it didn't belong.
Cheung, who speaks English with a surprising British accent, at once grounds the film and gives it a touch of mystery--the mystery of simplicity.