It’s the Mid-Atlantic Accent. “Good American Speech” is some weird neologism somebody must have invented for the Wikipedia article.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent is now a disambiguating page. I assume that somebody didn’t understand that the “Mid-Atlantic” in “Mid-Atlantic Accent” meant the middle of the Atlantic Ocean - not the mid-Atlantic region of the US - and was very mildly embarrassed. Now we have a stupid new name for something whose actual name is just a little bemusing for Yanks but ultimately fine.
Edit: Wow, and now William F. Buckley Jr., who famously used the accent, is now relegated to a mere footnote. Somebody trashed this article.
AStonesThrow · 4h ago
It appears that there is a significant dispute raging on the article's talk page about what the title and topic should be, and there are several editors going back-and-forth, even trying to change or split the article titles, since the beginning of March.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent is now a disambiguating page. I assume that somebody didn’t understand that the “Mid-Atlantic” in “Mid-Atlantic Accent” meant the middle of the Atlantic Ocean - not the mid-Atlantic region of the US - and was very mildly embarrassed. Now we have a stupid new name for something whose actual name is just a little bemusing for Yanks but ultimately fine.
Edit: Wow, and now William F. Buckley Jr., who famously used the accent, is now relegated to a mere footnote. Somebody trashed this article.