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Teekno. • 3 mo. ago. When the British colonized America, they had rhotic accents, like most North American accents still have. In the very early 1800s, the non-rhotic accent came into fashion in England, and is still widespread there. Places that had significant British colonization after 1800 tend to also have non-rhotic accents, because ...
Accents change, due to fashion, outside influence and seemingly random change. And the article always cited with regard to this (from the BBC), talks only about rhoticity (pronouncing Rs). That is only one small feature of an accent. Both British and American accents have changed a lot since America was colonised.
By Darrel Pratt. February 3, 2023. In Windsor. Saxe-Coburg renamed Windsor Queen Victoria died in 1901, succeeded by her eldest son Edward VII, the first English king from the German dynasty of Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha. To make the name easier to pronounce for the English, the house was renamed Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
He sort of sounds like he has a lisp, and he over-enunciates a bit, but it's pretty consistent and I think he passes. He doesn't really have a specific regional accent other than southern and a bit public school. But drunk public school. By the way, Scottish and Irish (well, northern Irish) are British accents, but they are not English accents.
The American accent, rather than a dilution of the British accent, which was different from what it is today at any rate, was an amalgamation of several accents that could only have formed the way that it did through the unique history that brought together the diverse people who were later called "Americans."
May 2, 2017 · 5. It could be that their accents are meant as indicators to their personality and class. In the examples you give: Thénardier adopts a 'fake' french accent, to attempt to pass himself off as more sophisticated than he is. The fact the accent is French is unimportant, it's the act of pretense by Thénardier that is being portrayed.
Sep 21, 2016 · Alamy. While exiled American loyalists to the Crown shaped the English accent in Ontario, the immigrants who settled the Maritime Provinces came from the UK and France (Credit: Alamy) The primary ...
