+1. Interesting how the article managed to ignore this.Maybe because USA citizens are a results of years of immigrations from many parts of the world..and every people carries his own accent. Mixing people from different countries mixes also the 2 language etc...
Probably cause most of what you watch is all the shit thats on BBC America, 98% of that is comedy based. Watch some real Brit TV and its very different.
+1. Interesting how the article managed to ignore this.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County.svg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries.jpg
You'd think it has at least some influence on how the language developed
+1. Interesting how the article managed to ignore this.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries-by-County.svg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Census-2000-Data-Top-US-Ancestries.jpg
You'd think it has at least some influence on how the language developed
Yeah, certain of us 'murrcans are hardly any better with the "every sentence is interrogative" thing, know what I'm sayin?
how the fuck is "American" listed as an ancestry?
I have no idea either hahaha. Mel Gibson and Chuck Norris perhaps?how the fuck is "American" listed as an ancestry?
come on, we fucked ourselfs more than once
OT Question: Why does it sound like there's an "r" at the end of "idea" in BE? I've noticed this only recently (in the last 5-10 years). "I have no idear."
OT Question: Why does it sound like there's an "r" at the end of "idea" in BE? I've noticed this only recently (in the last 5-10 years). "I have no idear."
this.
Over a very small geographical area accents in the UK can change to the extent where people have to make a conscious effort to speak in a way that will be understood[1]. This is the byproduct of a 1000 years of relative stability and minimal movement allowing local speech to diverge. By contrast, american history is a relatively short history, dominated by movement and population mixing, creating a more uniform accent.
Quite simply, to refer to the so-called British accent is a misnomer.
[1] The ability to do this is a byproduct of modern education, you don't have to look far in to the past to find literature describing conversation being impossible between people with particularly distant accents in the UK.