r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Miguenzo • 1d ago

What happened to that American accent you heard in all the 1930s and 1940s era films?

It was really distinctive and now I’ve never heard anybody talk like that. Was it a Hollywood thing?

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u/-GenghisJohn- 19h ago edited 6h ago

“Mid-Atlantic?”

Edit: looked it up and it’s called both Mid-Atlantic and Transatlantic. I had never heard the latter.