tonite is a nite dedicated to the various different accents =) in just a mere 4 hours, i was exposed to accents of mandarin, scottish, american, and 'braseeelian' origins. what was i doing? hehe watching tv!

accents are such interesting things! they peek out from the depths of the english language, giving a colorful display of ethnicity and even dollops of culture and individualism. IDENTITY! yes, identity! =) The letter 't' is the most distinguishing letter of all, of which it is supposedly the hardest letter to pronounce. more often than not, native speakers can pick out non-native speakers from their pronunciation of that particular letter, even though they have been born and bred in that country, so to speak. the letter 't' is also a letter of many faces. in certain accents, the 't' is clipped and well-articulated, while in others, it is merely slid over by simplest movement of the tongue. for example, 'twenty' can easily appear as 'twenny' and so on and so forth =)

hmm... i wonder if there is a faculty of study entirely dedicated to the way english is pronounced...