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accent - use in sentences
Object
- vowel: To type accented vowels, use your normal method of doing this under Windows.
- character: Your best choice is to prepare a version without any Polish accented characters at all.
Converse of object
- imitate: People still imitate German accents that they hear in WWII films, although modern Germans do not speak like this anymore.
- annoy: Once weâre done, Iâm just going to hang out with my brother and speak in as many different annoying accents as we can.
- adopt: If actors are going to adopt a scouse accent, please stick to it throughout the play.
- distinguish: The accuracy of distinguishing American accent and British accent is 83 % .
Adjective modifier
- cockney: The cockney accent had disappeared; Winston suddenly realized whose voice it was that he had heard a few moments ago on the telescreen.
- Glaswegian: A smile, a nod, a polite little " OK " in a Glaswegian accent.
- posh: No posh accents on T.V. No sharks swimming in the custard.
- Scouse: Yet from his beer belly to his Scouse accent, Kilfoyle is almost a caricature of an old Labor MP.
- Jamaican: Parents, start practicing your best Jamaican accent now!
- Irish: The man has a strong Irish accent, believed by the witness to be Southern Irish.
Modifies a noun
- lighting: Del Lighting Del Lighting designs superior fiber optic lighting systems for commercial lighting, accent lighting, starfields, landscape or pool lighting.
- correction: Advanced English speech synthesis, accent correction function, and specialized terms database will help you communicate with utmost efficiency.
Noun used with modifier
- scouse: If actors are going to adopt a scouse accent, please stick to it throughout the play.
- cut-glass: His cut-glass accent was too strong, often making it difficult to understand what he was saying.
- manc: Coronation St tho is not truly representative of Manchester or a Manc accent.. .
- decor: My Serendipity's Gifts My Serendipity Gifts, home decor and home decor accents.
- chrome: Tasteful chrome accents are inlayed into the color-coordinated front bumper just below the headlamps.
- pitch: Pitch and stress: Japanese is only minimally semantically tonal, tho the majority of dialects have a word pitch accent.
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