Talk American

Code Switch

NPR

Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

What is the "Standard American Accent"? Where is it from? And what does it mean if you don't have it? Code Switch goes on a trip to the Midwest to find out.

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0:00.0	What's good, Coach Witchless Center?
0:01.3	So we got a quick announcement for you.
0:03.0	We are going to Alabama.
0:05.3	WBHM and NPR have teamed up to bring you
0:08.8	Coach Witch, live from Birmingham.
0:10.6	So on Tuesday, August 14th at 8 p.m.
0:12.6	at UAB's Alice Steven Center,
0:14.8	we have some dope guests including Mayor Randall Woodfin
0:18.5	and WBHM's Gigi Duband.
0:20.0	It's gonna be a lot of fun.
0:20.9	You can get your tickets now for the live taping
0:22.8	of our podcast at nprpresents.org.
0:26.0	I'm Dionne Brockston.
0:32.0	I'm from Baltimore, Maryland.
0:34.0	Before my speech training, I would say
0:36.0	Baltimore, but to say it,
0:38.0	the closest way to standard American English
0:40.0	is to announce Baltimore.
0:42.0	Dionne was a web producer for a TV station in Baltimore.
0:46.0	His dream to be a broadcast reporter.
0:49.0	Dionne studied journalism in college,
0:51.0	but it wasn't until Freddie Gray was killed.
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