Here's a link to a google search for regional American accents on YouTube:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-...

#4 Es ist SO geil.

Abso-fucking-lutely!

WittGenStein, in meinem Wohnort hört man verschiedene Akzente, weil es viele Zuzügler und auch Einwanderer gibt (Dublinpendlergegend).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6-8yIfRBcpw Die Alteingesessenen sprechen in etwa so wie im obigen Link.

Oder ein bisschen posher: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgTPtbddheU

Edit: es fällt mir schwer den Akzent zu beschreiben. “Flat” nennt meine Gemahlin das, wenig Satzmelodie. Typisch, aber nicht auf die Region beschränkt ist, dass “t” in der Mitte eines Wortes fast unterdrückt wird. “Toma-o”, “pota-o”, wobei das o dann eher zu einem a-Klang wird.

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2022/1022/13307...

Ein kurzer Artikel über Besonderheiten des Irischen Englisch, auf den ich gerade zufällig gestoßen bin. Vielleicht interessiert das auch.

#18 Typisch, aber nicht auf die Region beschränkt ist, dass “t” in der Mitte eines Wortes fast unterdrückt wird. “Toma-o”, “pota-o”, wobei das o dann eher zu einem a-Klang wird.

An Irish friend of mine always used to say that a key element in copying an Irish accent was to pretend you had a hot potato in your mouth!

#11 Duck! Das klingt nach nordwestlichem Zipfel der East Midlands!

Why limit it to the NW of the East Midlands? When I lived in Nottingham it was commonly used and Nottingham is about right in the middle of the East Midlands.

I come from Cardiff but lost the accent many years ago: Frank Hennesy - Cardiff Born Cardiff Bred - YouTube

#23: When I lived in Nottingham ...

Well, well! I spent my teenage years in Nottingham.

Nowadays I generally speak a rhotic, but otherwise more or less neutral, regional-accent free, Oxford-influenced British English

That's something I've notice quite a bit with long-term expats working in international environments. It's hard to tell where they're from since they've often lost most of their regional accent. (English people, I mean. I'm not good enough to hear much of a difference in anybody else, strong accent or not. Southern US, rest of US, Irish, Scottish, Australian is as far as I get. Can't tell Canadians from Americans and Aussies mostly not from New Zealanders, unless I've been watching a lot of either.) I wonder if the same is true for Germans.

I doubt that Rangan is a dialect switcher and that he speaks in a broader accent at home. Regional accents have been routinely disparaged in the UK and he will have been encouraged to lose or soften his. I spent my first 18 years in Cardiff, another place with a distinguishable accent. I grew up in a working class area and went to the local state schools where all of my classmates used the accent. Our teachers, though, were not all locals. I don't have any trace of a Cardiff accent and certainly couldn't be a dialect switcher.

I think that in Rangan's case the situation might be even more pronounced. He was raised in an immigrant family and received a very privileged, middle-class education where his fellow pupils would have also been encouraged not to speak with the local accent. Many of his teachers would not have been locals.

I think the person praising his "charming Northern accent" is imagining it. I certainly wouldn't use his as an example of an authentic northern accent.

A broadcaster with a more pronounced Manchester accent is Brian Cox:

Horizons Tour - Ask Me Anything - Quantum Entanglement - YouTube

The actress Jane Horrocks comes from Rawtenstall, which is just north of Manchester, and has a very distinctive Lancashire accent, which I find absolutely fabulous.

Five Minutes With: Jane Horrocks - YouTube

#30: I would only say that his accent is vaguely northern

I agree. If I hadn't been told he was from Manchester, I would even have said "vaguely northern or Midland".

Fernschreiber picked out the two most characteristic sounds: those in Monday afternoon. (It’s similar when Dr C. says run faster.). I think I hear him pronouncing those same sounds in, on the one hand, gut, blood, but, money, number, stuff and does and, on the other, demands, after and nasty. That isn’t a complete list.

Also, fairly near the end of the recording Dr C. says everyone and one of the tips, pronouncing one to rhyme with don or gone. That is also typical of (all, or some of?) these regions.

However, there are (in my view) two possible northern pronunciations of the vowel in, say, gut or blood. In one, the words would rhyme with, respectively, put and good.* But what I hear in Dr C.’s speech is what I think of as an intermediate sound: I don’t know if there is a proper term for it, but I would describe it as being like a schwa.

At my schools in Nottingham and nearby, some people used the first and some the second type of sound. I’ve never heard or read anything about this difference, and I don’t know how experts would account for it.

*See, or rather hear, this recording featuring Andy Burnham. He is the mayor of Greater Manchester, but Manchester isn’t his home town. The interviewer is also a northerner.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=andy+burnha...