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[โ€“] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 2 months ago (14 children)

This is wrong. Britain changed english the American southern accent is most similar to how the british used to speak as far as im aware. The british accent is a more recent invention. It started out as elites in britain wanting to sound different so they could signify their status and it spread from there if i remember right.

[โ€“] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english

Here i looked it up since its been ages since i read about this. So just ignore what i said and read this. It'll be more accurate on the details.

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