Where did the American accent come from?
>>53271327
Depends on the region
All the European immigrant accents merged into a bastardised English
a strong desire to not sound like faggy redcoats
>>53271327
Midwestern accent is english combined with scaninavian and german, south is from the relatively early english settlers, east coast states are a toss up, west is mexican
>>53271327
>>53271647
This for the most part. Really deppends on the area. In my state alone there are about 3 different accents.
The western side has a heavy Scottish and Irish influence on it with German traits added in. Also adopted a lot of Polish words.
>>53271327
>tfw Received Pronunciation American accents are extinct now.
Fuck immigrants lads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgXVJJyzZ00
This is how god intended for English to be spoken.
fat tongues
I read a Bill Bryson book that said the basic American accent was already a thing in small English towns, and they emigrated to America. The differing regional accents then developed over time
>>53272046
That's not an RP American accent. That's a midatlantic accent that he had from the fact he lived in England as a boy
Dutch people from Leiden sound very American.
People from Amsterdam can sound a bit like New York.
>>53271327
>Implying Americans have """"" accents"""""
Fuck off, foreigner.
>>53273553
This, we mostly don't have accents
>>53273616
>>53273553
Are you both mutes?
>>53271903
>Also adopted a lot of Polish words.
wut
you mean Russian maybe
we're not influential
>>53273501
Isn't that dependent on how they learn English?
I've met a good many Indians that have (or try to have) a British accent, but that is how they learned English. Then I've met Germans that are very fluent in English and speak English more like how Americans do.
>>53274021
I don't know the orginal of the words, but we had a massive immigration of Poles that came for work in the steel mills and a lot of Polish foods and words (again idk the orginal of the words) ended up becoming a norm in the area.
England
>>53271327
Native Americans IMO
When you hear them speak English it sounds like us except harder, ours is soft because it's still part British.
