Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and, scores of other actors adopted a fictionalized upper-crust accent, which gets a starring role in Ryan Murpy's new Netflix series Hollywood.

With such a useful explanation, why do I gripe about the name? To me, “Mid-Atlantic English” is the nom juste for a related but distinct phenomenon (which is also mentioned in Wikipedia).

Sometimes referred to as a Mid-Atlantic accent, it is a carefully crafted dialect meant to imitate the upper-crust elite.

Discover the history of the Mid-Atlantic accent, from its Hollywood heyday to its decline in modern times.

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.

The Mid-Atlantic accent originated to adapt to microphones and other available audio and broadcasting technology of the earlier 1900s.

Mun-Dih Testi-Money I‘m talking about the once-popular speech pattern known as the mid-Atlantic accent. To speak this way you use clipped, nasal articulations.

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In the mid-Atlantic accent, you pronounce "day" in "Monday" as "dih" as in "did," and "testimony" becomes "testi-money." This accent wasnâ t vernacular in the U.S.; it was employed for public ...

The Mid-Atlantic accent was very much in vogue until its abrupt decline post-World War II. Taught in finishing schools and society parlors, the accent had become common to off-screen America.

If you've started to notice that everyone on TikTok seems to sound the same, then you're not wrong, after Gen Z brought back the Mid Atlantic accent popularised by old Hollywood before it started ...