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Iceland?

Mid-Atlantic accents are interesting. The closest thing the U.S. has to English dialects from Shakespeare's time. I love saying, "Baltmer, Meruland."

We speak the King’s English here.
Everyone knows Elvis was the King.
Some remnants of Shakespeare also.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/d ... e/1724131/

It was an artificially constructed dialect of English used by Hollywood in the 1930s. Actors were taught to speak in a kind of hybrid of BBC British English and American broadcast English. No one in any locality actually spoke that way.
But it was palatable to both British and American audiences. Sort of a bland non rhotic (light on the r's) speech you hardly notice when you hear it in old movies, but is actually quite odd if you think about it.Textbooks were published then in how to speak it. It went out of vogue after WWII, and disappeared.

No, those practiced, half-British, half-American accents typical of old timey east coast elites (and actors).