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There’s a theory that the Trans-Atlantic accent was born out of necessity because radios of the time did not effectively relay human bass tones. Did other languages have an equivalent of a Trans-Atlantic accent, or was this a uniquely English phenomena?

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There’s a theory that the Trans-Atlantic accent was born out of necessity because radios of the time did not effectively relay human bass tones. Did other languages have an equivalent of a Trans-Atlantic accent, or was this a uniquely English phenomena?	3234