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Good American Speech

by merksittich on 5/20/25, 10:06 PM with 2 comments

• by WalterGR on 5/20/25, 10:49 PM

  It’s the Mid-Atlantic Accent. “Good American Speech” is some weird neologism somebody must have invented for the Wikipedia article.

  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent is now a disambiguating page. I assume that somebody didn’t understand that the “Mid-Atlantic” in “Mid-Atlantic Accent” meant the middle of the Atlantic Ocean - not the mid-Atlantic region of the US - and was very mildly embarrassed. Now we have a stupid new name for something whose actual name is just a little bemusing for Yanks but ultimately fine.

  Edit: Wow, and now William F. Buckley Jr., who famously used the accent, is now relegated to a mere footnote. Somebody trashed this article.