Sentence examples for accent known from inspiring English sources

Donleavy speaks with that curious accent known as Transatlantic English — like Katharine Hepburn, except with a beard and fifty years of living in Ireland.

"It's Low Cost Valley," Cecily Pennoyer said in the slightly affected, upper-crust accent known on the Gold Coast as "Locust Valley lockjaw," adjusting a straw hat tagged for $2 on her head.

The queen of mean: Antiope by name, and played in the film by Robin Wright, with an accent, known to linguists as All-Purpose Antiquity, that floats gently around the eastern Mediterranean.

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger can look back seven decades at the team from a Bavarian town named Fürth, "which in those days was like the Green Bay Packers," he said in his distinctive accent, known all over the world.

The hooded man with the east London accent known as "Jihadi John" was again centre stage, narrating a warning to the British prime minister, David Cameron and US president Barack Obama after sawing off the head of a captured Syrian.

Many in the American public were introduced to Isis through wrenching videos in which Mohammed Emwazi  — a masked, knife-wielding militant with a British accent known as "Jihadi John" — slit the throats of Western hostages, including Americans James Foley and Steve Sotloff.

But both Alina, me, and her accent know her home isn't Italy.

People's names, in whatever language, should also be given appropriate accents where known.

Try it with your regular accent first, then research that accent and know that you only have to change a few letter sounds.

She smiles and says, in a deep Armenian accent: "Who knows?

He joked, "If you run into anyone around town speaking English with a Brooklyn accent, you know who taught them".