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Re:When did Americans lose their British accents? by awb on Monday February 10, 2020 @11:36AM (#22290630)
> I read somewhere that the American accent is closer to what British was like in the 1700-1800s.

Wouldn't you then expect a small isolated town in England to still have an "American" accent?

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Re:When did Americans lose their British accents? by umanwizard on Monday February 10, 2020 @12:00PM (#22290888)
No, because that town's accent will have been changing since 1700, too.

But you definitely find, for example, places in England where "r"s at the ends of words or before consonants are pronounced, like in America but unlike in RP.

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Re:When did Americans lose their British accents? by danans on Monday February 10, 2020 @12:58PM (#22291474)
> places in England where "r"s at the ends of words or before consonants are pronounced, like in America but unlike in RP

Specifically in the west country of England. This accent was borrowed by Hollywood to create what we know today as the "pirate" accent.

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