Additional context:
Native speakers of my mother tongue do not all understand each other due to some pretty extreme dialects. Now that I’m in Europe, I’ve noticed multiple instances of people sometimes not understand the dialect of someone from a village 10-20 km away…
In contrast, for example most American, British, and Australian people can just… understand each other like that?? I never thought much about it before but it’s pretty incredible
Edit: thanks everyone, and clearly I didn’t think of certain parts of the UK when I was in the shower and thought of this…
Never really. Mid-Atlantic was taught in elocution lessons but didn’t really exist outside film and theatre.
Oh I actually thought the comment I replied to replied to your comment about broadcast English xD
I thought it was native to wealthy families from Jersey/Virginia/Maryland. People that grew up in Martha’s vineyard.
Only if they copied the movies. Stewie in the Family Guy speaks in a Mid-Atlantic accent which is why he pronounces his H’s etc.
I’ve always preferred calling it “trans-atlantic” to avoid confusion with that “Mid-Atlantic Region” of the US which is on the East Coast roughly from New Jersey down to Virginia, maybe even the very northern Coastal parts of North Carolina. Some people include New York/NYC but I can’t agree. Ok, maybe parts of New York bordering Pennsylvania.
That’s definitely where my mind goes.