Why did americans lose the british accent while australians kind of kept it?
Why did americans lose the british accent while australians kind of kept it?
we became independent 150 years later
American accents are closer to what the Brits sounded like 300 years ago.
just because muh rotic have you heard reconstructed old English its really similar to a west country accent
ehh you know what every time someone says this I act like an autist and get in more depth than anyone wants to see. but this isn't exactly correct
no
incorrect
Aussies sound nothing like any accent in Great Britain. Fucking idiot.
yes they do
americans sound more similar to the northern irish accent
STFU you silly codnigger.
VERY rude
I am a rude motherfucker.
we've significant Ulster Scots ancestry, possibly comparable to English on average despite the English settlers mostly coming earlier
Why do Canadians have the whiniest accent in the world?
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i know
it's a bit annoying being mistaken for a yank online all the time
Most American accent from the UK I've heard comes from a little north of of that light blue part of the channel
I'm on mobile sorry
which American accents do you find the most like yours?
It's because you guys pronounce some remarks very similarly, like the last syllable of words like centre and wonder for example. The r`s are similar too imo
I can rarely tell South African and Australian apart.
I'm not an anglo.
don't know enough about american dialects to tell you desu
chink
why do people say this?
i've heard the same for french
americans sound like fat stupid idiots
there's some isolated communities in the Appalachians that still have the english front of the mouth sound
Why did the British lose the British accent?
It's new worlders autism. Brazilians say the same desu
they're purely talking about rhoticity
actually the same reason with French in Quebec funnily enough, the Quebecois rolled r is considered archaic
c'hai ragione, uomo d'albione
internal migration
Except most of us don't roll their rs anymore
didn't ask
Brits sound like snobby racists.
This is what Colonial Americans sounded like
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Lots of Ulster folk came here
it's probably a bit similar to most American accents, but it's also just a divergent and possibly archaic Tidewater accent
Wrong link sorry
thats the coast, not Appalachia
Well some of us do.
People from Adelaide have a really weird British-Australian hybrid accent often saying things like dance as in "darnce" instead of "daynce"
>Well some of us do.
No, none of you do.
I went to another city for work and got asked how long I had been living in Australia and where i lived in Britain, despite being born in Adelaide. Twice in 2 days.
he's a weird cunt don't respond to him
Is that Dublin?
what about canada?
are you kidding? it's Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
Nice anecdote, but the fact is no Aussie accent sounds like anything in Great Britain.
>this guy
Which American accent?
Rhotic Southern accent is a bit "British"
this
a*Sies or as i call them ASS SISSES are nothing like the brÏts. the ASS SISSIES are turds that came out of the ASSES.. they have nothing in common with brîts
mangiaspaghetti. your language sounds like a urinary tract infection.
no, it's your mom
lol
Thats because all the names for everything in medicine come from latin
You dumb fuck
Yes you did you rude dipshit
Adelaide isn't part of Australia, user.
Canadians to me sound like they are Americans that say "about" weird
Am I the only one who thinks this
>asses
arses*
So where do I live then?
>tfw say bottle of wadder and aigs unironically
>tfw if I raise my voice and say "get out of my country" it sounds like "git outta my cuntree" naturally
>wanting to sound like an island of poor, AIDS ridden homosexuals with rotten teeth
Losing a bong accent is a good thing
Anything with ou in it we pronounce funny
southern and west coast accents remind a little bit of brits'
>southern and west coast accents remind a little bit of brits'
No wtf
West coast a tiny bit in some ways, the south is actually a shitty Irish accent.
DAAAS RIIIIIIIIITE
Kys proto-britshit
I laughed
Canada is America-lite you stupid gook. Start connecting the dots here.
t. Shitalian diaspora living on the border
oh, wait, i meant east coast
We never had it to begin with
Those island monkeys developed an accent because they couldn't stand the fact that they got absolutely BTFO HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
this
expected better from a leaf, a commonwealth-er
Why are you so bad at hearing accents? Wtf, as bad as Americans, man
get me a double sized, veggie Hell's pizza faggot
Don't you ever fucking talk to Talula Does The hula From Hawaii like that ever again, cunt.
WE WUZ BRIT N SHIT
thick fucking skull
ask
how do I distinguish australians from new zealanders based purely off of speech patterns?
ask 'em to say chips
Or ask em if they have a deck
new zealand vowels are more up and forward, short e can lead towards a short i
Ask them what they call a case of six beers.
you mean sex beyas?
I spoke with some Brit on here once and he said that he thought Boston accents sounded British and I have never once thought that but that might be because I am from there
ex:
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Yeah not soox bières
Dialect
he was probably confusing Boston accents with JFK-style old fashioned New England accents.
He said he visited and was talking to some Bostonians though
I thought it was because of immigrants. Irish, german, italian and bam you have a new language melting pot
hate this meme
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