Example sentences for: accents

How can you use “accents” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • THREE Talking proper and talking posh FOUR Are some accents better than others?

  • As many of the British comedians either speak with thick North or West Country accents, mumble, talk too fast, or all three, it is sometimes difficult to understand what they (and their audiences) are on about.

  • News services that drop umlauts might deserve some sympathy; given the isolation of North Americans, the assumption is easily made here that the umlaut is an extraneous character that can be dropped—as accents in French often are when French words are transcribed into English—without doing bodily harm to the word in question.

  • I am not sure that his Spanish here, any more than in the first novel, is faulty at all, except for incorrect written accents, in the sense that Mexicans would never say what he has them saying.

  • Many of the statesmen in history to whom actors ascribe smart southern accents were in fact proudly northern.


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