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.
whAT THE FUCK
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.
The trouble is America has so many accents, and Britain (especially once you factor in Scotland, Wales and both Northern Ireland and Eire) seems to have even more per square mile than Americans, that I think you need to be more specific about which American accent sounds most like which British accent.
More than likely it’s the dominant Southern drawls that are the closest to being the original English accent from the colonization period (not British, that covers more ground). Mostly because Southerners were the shit-stubborn motherfuckers who tried to hang on to EVERYTHING being like it was in the good old days from fucking Imperial taxes to slavery to segregation and so on. Southerners as a whole do not like change and they will fight you.
But for fun, here’s the island off Virginia with the original Irish accent from the 1700-1800s! (Hear that drawl? That’s why they think the dominant Southern drawls are the English originals because spoken English on the British isles shares that similarity before the Oxford classist accent emerged.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIZgw09CG9E
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