Foreign Accent

Foreign accent may refer to:

  • accent (linguistics)
  • diacritic, an accent mark in writing
  • non-native pronunciations of English
  • Anglophone pronunciation of foreign languages

Famous quotes containing the words foreign and/or accent:

    “Science is an integral part of culture. It’s not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It’s one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.”
    —Stephen Jay Gould (b. 1941)

    “I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)