at what point in history do you think americans stopped having british accents
Actually, Americans still have the original British accent. We kept it over time and Britain didn’t. What we currently coin as a British accent developed in England during the 19th century among the upper class as a symbol of status. Historians often claim that Shakespeare sounds better in an American accent.
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I’m too tired for this
Always add in the video that according to linguists, Native southern drawl is a slowed down British.
T’ be or not t’be, y’all.
Fun fact: Same thing happened with the French accent. French Canadians still have the original French accent from the 15th century.
Êt’e ou n’pô zêt’e, vous z’auts.
I’ve been trying to find this post for months. I’m freakishly obsessed with this and want the truth of what early colonists sounded like.
This is sometimes called the colonial lag hypothesis which is the idea that language evolves faster in the ‘original’ country compared to colonies – there are various explanations given for why this is and it’s sort of debatably a thing cause there’s also evidence against it. But for example ‘fall’ used to be used in British and American English but now we use ‘autumn’ but Americans still use ‘fall’ and stuff like that.
This doesn’t make American English the same as the ‘original English accent’ mostly because what are we counting as an original English accent? There isn’t really one. And American English has not evolved zero. But modern day American English would be closer to English spoken prior to colonisation of America at a given historical point than modern day British english.
This also happens in Spanish most notably would be the use of vosotros in Spain but not in Latin America and the converse survival of vos and associated verb forms in some some South American versions of Spanish (and in ladino) but not in all of them
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