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Mid-Atlantic accent
A
Mid-Atlantic accent
, or
Transatlantic accent
, is a cultivated or
acquired
accent
of the
English language
once found in the
American upper class
and taught for use as a standard in American schools for actors as late as the early 1900s. It is not a
vernacular
accent typical of any location or any
natural variety
, but a consciously learned blend of
American English
and
British English
, intended to favor neither.
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