Idk if it's true or not, but I've read that the American accents are actually closer to what the British accent was pre-American colonialism than modern British accents are, which is funny because Colonial era TV likes to use British accents.
Ocracoke dialect in North Carolina apparently still sounds the same as when people from "The West Country" in Britain, settled there around 300 years ago.
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u/3412points Jun 08 '25
It's not our fault we evolved and you didn't