For this reason, he said, New Yorkers will always have distinctive and recognizable accents.
The further south and closer to London is where you find the most recognizable accents, like Cockney, Mary Poppins is a well known film where the actors speak in a fake Cockney accent.
He juggled almost a dozen jobs — including law partner, columnist, author, radio show host, playwright, movie reviewer and lecturer — and appeared relentlessly in the media, a shtick-artist with one of the most recognizable New York accents in the world.
His loud, cackling laugh is immediately recognizable, and his accent blends both the regional dialect here and his Francophone African roots.
Rhythm is a significant factor, and movements are often clearly linked by a recognizable pattern of accents.
At that time, he and other officers said, officers usually spoke in accents recognizable as upper class -- reflecting the British tendency to use speech patterns as a kind of vocal DNA to recognize their social kith and kin.
There he confronted an alien world of flush toilets and microwave ovens, of impenetrable job applications and accents barely recognizable as English.
Soon after the radio program began -- five spots a week, each about 15 minutes -- Mr. MacGregor's matter-of-fact Scottish accent became as recognizable as Philippe de Montebello's plumy French baritone did to visitors who listened to his recorded audio guides at the Metropolitan Museum of Art before his retirement in 2008.
In fact, New Yorkers like their public figures to be feisty and tough, and a quality that could be described as "grating" is probably the most recognizable feature of the New York accent.
It takes some time but eventually you'll at least be making a recognizable (if not entirely believable) accent!
