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snooper2

(30,151 posts)
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 12:40 PM Jun 2015

Hillary Clinton's accent evolution (1983–2015)

interesting to watch, if not just for the history-


Published on Apr 22, 2015
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/art...

During her tenure in politics, Hillary Clinton has shifted between several distinct versions of American English. This is not terribly unusual. President Barack Obama has been known to change his pronunciation according to region and audience. But the thing about Clinton is that she’s been in the game for so long, and has had so many different jobs and lived in so many different places, that her various accents wind up mapping her career.



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