Re: Midatlantic Accent

This seems an awful misapplication of terminology to
me, as an American.  I would think of mid-Atlantic as
in the Mid-Atlantic states--therefore, the Baltimore
accent would be the standard.

Clint


--- Eamon Graham <robertg@...> wrote:
> With some recent discussion on the list about
> different accents and
> dialects of English, I decided to ask the list about
> something:
>
> In Salman Rushdie's "Satanic Verses" (one of my all
> time favourites
> by the way), a character is described as being
> "midatlantic-accented."  In Paul Brian's study guide
> to the novel he
> defines this as  "An accent calculated to be neither
> precisely
> British nor precisely American, but somewhere in
> between."
>
> Can anyone tell me any thing else about a
> "midatlantic accent" ?
> What characteristics would make an accent neither
> precisely British
> nor precisely American?  I expect accent isn't the
> only thing - word
> choice would be important.  Grammar as well?
>
> Curious,
> Eamon

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