Americans who still have British Accents (sort of)

[dperucca]

Stumbled on these videos and found them interesting. Do you hear the UK influence? If so, what region does it sound like it comes from?



I hear it less here in these people from Maine.

[dperucca]

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[AL00]

Yes I think this few cases are circumscribed in some New England villages or in the carolinas and VA

[KMack]

Strange accents indeed.

[paprika]

actually american english doesn't come from british english, they have a common ancestor. in many cases american english is actually more like the original early modern english of the 1600s phonetically. some examples are the way the r is pronounced in american english, which is closer to the original than the british way, or the way the long o is pronounced: american pOlar bear vs british pEUleh beah, the american way is closer to the original

[paprika]

american english doesn't come from british english, just like english doesn't come from german, or humans don't come from chimpanzees, they have a common ancestor.

this is what proto-germanic looked like before english and german split

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[tekken999]

I've never heard of such an accent before, especially somewhere in the south like SC, although I know the Appalachian people have certain words that derived from the prior english settlers that arrived there a couple hundred years ago and the isolation of the langauge retained some peculiar features common way back then in central/southern england, scot-irish as well. To me their accent honestly sounds like an american trying to put on a british accent at certain points of their speech. Although i'm sure its not intentional on their part to do so

[SvartVarg]

Go to the Canadian Maritimes & particularly the sticks in Newfoundland. You can understand these Americans as their accents are watered down. You may not understand some older people from the backwoods of Newfoundland & Maritimes.

[Graham]

They still have that rural american twang with the rounded vowels and lack the r noise in an English way.