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Don't most people slur hard consonants? I've heard British accents with 'butter' as 'budda'.

Listen to Wicki's recording of herself, especially the bit when she said consumerism 

@veggie: Some british accents do, but like the American accent, it varies from place to place. Most british accents don't slur hard consonants though.

They can't pronounce aluminium. It comes out like 'aluminum'.

slinger wrote:

I've never in all my life heard an American say "oo" instead of "you".

I've heard youz.

jukyter wrote:

Laternenpfahl wrote:

THere is no american accent.

There is no european accent.

No one has ever claimed there was an European accent
Europe is a continent of 54ish countries, all having thousands of year old history and culture (apart from Germany and Italy and maybe some other countries, though they do have those histories-just not unified), most of which have different languages and thus need different accents
(North) America is a continent of 2 countries, having a few hundred year old culture and almost no history past a few hundred years back with only two languages

That's a bit too arrogant regarding the way accents are made and formed.
To argue semantics I could say that a European accent is ANY accent found in Europe, German and Italian accents included, but that wouldn't automatically define what specific sort of accent I'm thinking of, just that it comes from Europe.

And North America definitely has several different accents for an area that only generally speaks two languages. All the people who live here currently either descend from Native Americans, descend from people who immigrated here a long time ago, or are currently immigrants. So there have been tons of accents all moved into here that shaped the accent of the country when it was getting started. Depending on what cultures you had in the area, accents turned out differently.
I live in a more Western area of Kentucky and there's a noticeable difference in accent when I go to the Eastern area in the mountains.

jji7skyline wrote:

Listen to Wicki's recording of herself, especially the bit when she said consumerism 

@veggie: Some british accents do, but like the American accent, it varies from place to place. Most british accents don't slur hard consonants though.

I say "con-SOO-mer-ism", and so does everyone I know. I'm pretty sure it's the standard in the US.

GameGuy64 wrote:

They can't pronounce aluminium.

I can. :p

slinger wrote:

I've never in all my life heard an American say "oo" instead of "you".

I don't say myou! Neither do I say byou! Not achyou. etc.

CheeseMunchy wrote:

slinger wrote:

I've never in all my life heard an American say "oo" instead of "you".

American with a clogged nose, maybe? 

Mm, no.

jukyter wrote:

Laternenpfahl wrote:

THere is no american accent.

There is no european accent.

(North) America is a continent of 2 countries, having a few hundred year old culture and almost no history past a few hundred years back with only two languages

Um, what do you think Canada is? Not to mention Quebec, which speaks French.

scimonster wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

1. I don't know what slurring hard consonants is.
2. To us, you say the 'oo' in a lot of words as 'you'. That's all subjective.

1. As in instead of saying be(tt)er, you say be(dd)er. Not all Americans maybe, but most.
2. Exactly, it's all about how you look at it, but I'm just saying that Americans say 'oo' instead of 'you', it's just how I said it from my point of view 

Enunciating consonants is just too much work. 

I slur them too sometimes, when I feel like it, but rarely 

i don't have an accent by the way. i'm originally english.
this is how things sound when they're pronounced properly i think

CheeseMunchy wrote:

Wickimen wrote:

CheeseMunchy wrote:

American with a clogged nose, maybe? 

Mm, no.

Fine
American with the inability to use the letter 'y' in words.

I say "you", but I also say "con-SOO-mer-ism". It's just a matter of sounding better. And yes, I do pronounce "better" "bedder".