A question

[Maleficent909TL]

One of my friends brought this up today. What happened to our British accent?

If we Americans started out as people coming from England, didn't we start out with a British accent? So where did it go? And where did the other accents come from?

 

[crazytp93]

good question.

 

[disney100666]

I have no idea, but I was talking in a british accent today, I just felt like it, I do that type of stuff usally.

 

[Columba]

Same reason Australians don't speak with any European accent. Accents just change over time. We've also had a lot of immigrant influences.

 

[Maleficent909TL]

I have no idea, but I was talking in a british accent today, I just felt like it, I do that type of stuff usally.

Me too! One of my friends was practicing his British accent because he's doing a short scene from a British play. I get to audition for it next year! The drama teacher loves my accent. Yea!!

 

[Sparx]

american southern is about as close as you'll get to our original accents, now-a-days.

 

[::Snow_White::]

My friends say I have an awesome British Accent.
It's not real, but I obviously do a good fake one.

 

[taz]

I like to talk weird and act like im speaking some different language

 

[Captain Brain]

Me and my friends always talk in a British accent. I think that it's fun.

 

[Axel]

Over time, an accent wear away because people tend to start talking like the people in the area they are in. For example, if you brought somebody from England to the South, over time some of their words would become southernized with a southern accent. Then, they would pass it on to their children who would speak in a mix of brit and southern, then the children after that would speak less brit and more southern until finally the southern overcomes the brit accent.

Currently in the US, I find that it is the North East (not the south, as Shelby said) that has an accent closest to that of the British. The way that we don't pronounce any "ar", "ir", "er", "ur", or "or" sounds is very close to a british accent. My french teacher's British born and bred, and I spend so much time in that class that my own accent has started to change a bit and for about a half hour after that class, I want to speak with a brit accent.

 

[Sparx]

Over time, an accent wear away because people tend to start talking like the people in the area they are in. For example, if you brought somebody from England to the South, over time some of their words would become southernized with a southern accent. Then, they would pass it on to their children who would speak in a mix of brit and southern, then the children after that would speak less brit and more southern until finally the southern overcomes the brit accent.

Currently in the US, I find that it is the North East (not the south, as Shelby said) that has an accent closest to that of the British. The way that we don't pronounce any "ar", "ir", "er", "ur", or "or" sounds is very close to a british accent. My french teacher's British born and bred, and I spend so much time in that class that my own accent has started to change a bit and for about a half hour after that class, I want to speak with a brit accent.

My post wasn't worded very well. I meant to say that the south has a vocabulary closer to that of the original settlers. the north has the accent, we just have the words.

 

[Axel]

My post wasn't worded very well. I meant to say that the south has a vocabulary closer to that of the original settlers. the north has the accent, we just have the words.

That's what I gathered. After all- you guys say Taboggan (did I spell that right?).

 

[BabyPiglet]

My french teacher's British born and bred, and I spend so much time in that class that my own accent has started to change a bit and for about a half hour after that class, I want to speak with a brit accent.

I find that happens, too. On my most recent WDW trip, my family spent two days with this incredibly sweet family from the United Kingdom. After a while I felt that my voice was changing slightly.

 

[Pirate Me]

I love using a fake accent. I think I'm good at it.
But I did wonder this as well.

 

[PowerMonkey]

yep, you speak like the people youre around... so over the years, the british accent just faded.. and since the US is so diverse, there are many many different accents around the country (boston, philly, south, etc etc)

 

[Sparx]

That's what I gathered. After all- you guys say Taboggan (did I spell that right?).

Toboggan. (what do you guys call it? )

 

[imabrat]

I agree.
I think it faded over time.


I've been told that I have a Spanish accent,and I was born in the US.
I guess after years of talking to my mom (who's Spanish born and bred) I picked up on some of the accent?
Sometimes,I accidently roll my R's when speaking English!!


Shelby, what the heck's a tobboggan?
Like a sled?

 

[Sparx]

I agree.
I think it faded over time.


I've been told that I have a Spanish accent,and I was born in the US.
I guess after years of talking to my mom (who's Spanish born and bred) I picked up on some of the accent?
Sometimes,I accidently roll my R's when speaking English!!


Shelby, what the heck's a tobboggan?
Like a sled?

the sled and the hat.

 

[reminisce]

i dont know, i guess ive never thought about it. thats a good question, though.

 

[disney100666]

I can say Harry Potter with a really good british accent.