Mid-Atlantic accent

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In English linguistics, Mid-Atlantic accent is a pronunciation variant that cannot be assigned to either General American (GenA, widespread in the USA ) or Received Pronunciation (RP, widespread in the UK ), but rather a kind of compromise between the two the most learned language coloring. This is not a native accent. Other terms include "Oceanic" and "Trans-Atlantic".

In the 1920s, "Mid-Atlantic" was taught primarily in private schools in New England and was considered the language of American high society. Hollywood rediscovered it in the 1930s and 40s because the accent could not be precisely assigned geographically. After the Second World War, the use of the accent decreased rapidly.

This formal mid-atlantic is to be distinguished from the English spoken on the North Atlantic island of Bermuda , which combines European, American and some Caribbean features of English.