American accents.
When, how and why do you think Americans, and indeed Canadians, lost their British accents and replaced it with their range of present day more pleasant twangy drawls?
Other colonial countries such as Australia and New Zealand have pretty well retained their 'chirpy' British accents while the Yanks developed their own, much easier to understand way of speaking.
There is no American accent I cannot easily understand whereas there are a lot of British accents, especially those of northern U.K which I find to be unintelligible.
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I was in NYC for the holidays, and I noticed the natives had accents that possibly vaguely resembles a Scottish accent. It was quite interesting. Remember that lots of different people came to the US from the Old World and settled, so their accents might be a combination of three or four different ones. |
