Which American accents do these actors/singers have?

Sach   Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:44 am GMT
Do they speak with a General American accent or do they actually have a regional accent?

Michael Douglas
Jay Zee
Al Pacino
Brad Pitt
Morgan Freeman
Denzil Washington
George Clooney
Will Smith
Eminem


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*   Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:49 am GMT
Actors are very good at adopting different accents.
Guest   Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:47 pm GMT
American accents don't differ all that dramatically like they do in the UK. With all hairsplitting aside, people who have not grown up in the US or Canada as Anglophobes are very unlikely to notice more than about 3 different general accents in the US. South, North Eastern then everyone else. And no AAVE does not count as a real accent.
Leslie   Fri Oct 09, 2009 6:48 pm GMT
Eminem has Northern Cities Vowel Shift.
Will Smith (at least on Prince of Bel Air) has a heavy Back East accent.

I like Californian accents (Alison Lohman comes to mind) ;)
Kelly   Sat Oct 10, 2009 12:18 am GMT
Clint Eastwood (from SanFrancisco) is not cot/caught merged but his A's (as in map, bag...) sound like a Canadian/Californian shift a's [a].

Nicholas Cage is born and raised in California, yet his accent sounds Back East (he tries to hid his c/c merger and end up sounding like a random man from Washington D.C. or Philly).
Will Smith   Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:00 pm GMT
I speak Blackenize
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