# Singing without an accent

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-without-an-accent/601881>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 4, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-without-an-accent/601881 "2011-11-04T18:48:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-without-an-accent/601881/4 "2011-11-04T20:23:11Z")

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One thread you might have turned up when you searched was the long and controversial [My argument for why Standard American English really is “no accent” -](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=619668)in which the OP took a large amount of flak for suggesting that

> [@My argument for why Standard American English really is "no accent" -](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-argument-for-why-standard-american-english-really-is-no-accent/592101/1):
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> no matter how thick a person’s accent might be, or where it’s from in the whole wide world… when they SING their accent disappears. (With some rare exceptions).  
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> Therefore, since the majority of English-speaking singer’s accents disappear when they sing and they sound like someone who speaks Standard American English,I contend that Standard American English is as close as it gets to representing a genuinely neutral pronounciation of English.

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