HiLo - there IS something called a "Mid-Atlantic accent" used by some American elites - more-or-less equivalent to the "posh" accent of England, but perhaps more exclusive. Wikipedia suggests that William F. Buckley, Jr., Gore Vidal, Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt, George Plimpton, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Norman Mailer, and others used the accent. Tyrone Power, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Vincent Price, and Cary Grant were Hollywood folks who affected the Mid-Atlantic accent. I'd say Grace Kelly would be another good example. -Joe-
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