Modern American accents are actually closer to how the British spoke around the time of the American Revolution than modern British accents, which evolved into their modern forms over the Regency and Victorian eras of British history and were reinforced by television and theater using the Received Pronunciation (RP) accent, which was essentially invented by the elite to sound more “posh” than the working class.
Taolan13 on
They’re wildin, but technically correct.
Americans *were* brits. They saw themselves as british until after the revolution, and some didn’t stop seeing themselves as british for decades afterward.
As their empire started to bleed colonies that congealed into new independent nations, the brits back home in brit-land decided they needed to culturally distinguish themselves so they started overpronouncing stuff. They added back sounds that had long been absent from the then-modern English.
Modern-modern english has deviated from it, but 250 years ago the USA sounded closer to what the USA sounds like today than how close Britain 250 year ago is to how it sounds today.
Good_Smile on
Well that escalated quickly
TheBaggyDapper on
“I don’t know nothing about no names. All I know is a rose gonna smell the same whatever you gonna call that shit”
-Bill Shakespeare
bannapants67 on
that’s the worst they can do tbh what are they gonna do win a war against us ?
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Modern American accents are actually closer to how the British spoke around the time of the American Revolution than modern British accents, which evolved into their modern forms over the Regency and Victorian eras of British history and were reinforced by television and theater using the Received Pronunciation (RP) accent, which was essentially invented by the elite to sound more “posh” than the working class.
They’re wildin, but technically correct.
Americans *were* brits. They saw themselves as british until after the revolution, and some didn’t stop seeing themselves as british for decades afterward.
As their empire started to bleed colonies that congealed into new independent nations, the brits back home in brit-land decided they needed to culturally distinguish themselves so they started overpronouncing stuff. They added back sounds that had long been absent from the then-modern English.
Modern-modern english has deviated from it, but 250 years ago the USA sounded closer to what the USA sounds like today than how close Britain 250 year ago is to how it sounds today.
Well that escalated quickly
“I don’t know nothing about no names. All I know is a rose gonna smell the same whatever you gonna call that shit”
-Bill Shakespeare
that’s the worst they can do tbh what are they gonna do win a war against us ?
Whatever, Yanks still can’t spell though 😜
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