Diction, accents

You never really notice the way you speak until someone points something out to you.

There seems to be the trend that people assume the way they enunciate is the "right way" until outsiders say it sounds "weird". It all comes down to whether or not you've grown accustomed to something. Geographial locations come into play here. The South always have that southern drawl, along with colloquialisms like "Hey y'all!". In English we did an exercise on diction and it was easy to see how The North slur their "T's" into "D's", such as in the word "butter". The word "water" is pronounced differently everywhere! Around Jersey, it's pronounced "wooder". To actually hear it pronounced they way it should be, with the t "emphasized", it sounds strange.

There are many "accent" challenges on Youtube. It's interesting to see how we all speak differently when it's all the same language in the end. If anything we should pay homage to the originators of the language and speak with an English accent. I wonder how that happened, that the British enunciation was not carried over when the language settled in America.