{"id":545,"date":"2004-04-10T09:29:11","date_gmt":"2004-04-10T12:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=545"},"modified":"2004-04-10T09:29:11","modified_gmt":"2004-04-10T12:29:11","slug":"what-accent-do-you-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"What accent do you have?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>P<\/span>erfect-ly in ti-me for Easter week-end: the <a href=\"http:\/\/classweb.gmu.edu\/accent\/\">Speech Accent Archive<\/a> (via DevNull).\n<\/p>\n<p>The site has 2 classic examples of Dutch people speaking English (<a href=\"http:\/\/classweb.gmu.edu\/accent\/dutch1.html\">Nijmegen<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/classweb.gmu.edu\/accent\/dutch2.html\">Amsterdam<\/a>). Note that I doubt the claims of the Nijmeger speaker that he has an academic background. The Amsterdam speaker comes closer to the English the twin brother speaks. I mentioned this earlier (or slightly accent-related stuff) <a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/archives\/000217.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/archives\/000218.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/archives\/000529.html\">here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Fascinating material. To hear people speak English, you need Quicktime, though. This Texan voice sounds to me like the <a href=\"http:\/\/classweb.gmu.edu\/accent\/english9.html\">most perfect English speaker<\/a>. Seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perfect-ly in ti-me for Easter week-end: the Speech Accent Archive (via DevNull). The site has 2 classic examples of Dutch people speaking English (Nijmegen and Amsterdam). Note that I doubt the claims of the Nijmeger speaker that he has an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=545\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}