English Accents

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English Accents

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Why do American and UK Accents sound so dissimilar? Could a couple hundred years of infrequent communciation result in that much drift? Did the Americans change or did the English change? Back in the 1700s, American English and British English sounded basically identical to.... American English today! We dive into the divergence of the various UK accents, as well as unique American accents. Language is weird.

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Links and References:

https://youtu.be/vnkOFZKN0Dk?si=IPeNuwtYoU_m86ue
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-24703-3_6
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english
https://www.voices.com/blog/mid-atlantic-accent/
https://beelinguapp.com/blog/the-transatlantic-accent:-what-is-it-&-how-do-you-talk-in-it
https://www.cmdnyc.com/blog/2016/5/3/what-happened-to-the-mid-atlantic-accent
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-international-phonetic-association/article/abs/effects-of-dialect-on-vowel-acoustics-and-intelligibility/EE3A72D1A6D39C5216EDA4F5D337538A
https://www.studiocambridge.co.uk/a-brief-guide-to-british-accents-and-dialects/
https://www.ef.edu/blog/language/why-us-and-uk-english-sound-so-different/

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