“Mid-Atlantic is a made-up accent; no one actually speaks this way naturally,” Holland Taylor’s Ellen Kincaid, a studio casting executive charged with training young talent, tells the group ...

Snopes readers reached out to us recently with a request: What are the origins of the mid-Atlantic accent, that snobby, faux-British accent that many American actors and newscasters used in the ...

Historically, the mid-Atlantic accent denoted class ... Kate Lee, a professional voice coach with 20 years' experience training presenters for TV and radio, explained TikTokers 'play with ...

What happened to the Transatlantic accent? The Transatlantic accent, known also as the Mid-Atlantic accent, sounds like a newspaper barker from the 1940's or, yes, like Dorothy Gale as she cries ...

Sometimes referred to as a Mid-Atlantic accent, it is a carefully crafted dialect meant to imitate the upper-crust elite. Phonetician William Tilly created the posh accent in the early 20th century.

That dialect is called the mid-Atlantic accent, and Dan Nosowitz researched its roots for an article on the website Atlas Obscura. Welcome to the program. DAN NOSOWITZ: Thanks for having me.

Cary Grant ditched his West Country accent and 'faked' his mid-Atlantic drawl, a secret tape reveals. The Hollywood legend's real accent will be depicted for the first time in an ITV drama ...

In the early part of the 20th century, many radio personalities and performers adopted what was known as a Mid-Atlantic accent, or a blend of mannered British and the East Coast dialect of the ...