Where did the American accent come from?

>>53271327
Depends on the region

All the European immigrant accents merged into a bastardised English

a strong desire to not sound like faggy redcoats

>>53271327
Midwestern accent is english combined with scaninavian and german, south is from the relatively early english settlers, east coast states are a toss up, west is mexican

>>53271327
>>53271647


This for the most part. Really deppends on the area. In my state alone there are about 3 different accents.

The western side has a heavy Scottish and Irish influence on it with German traits added in. Also adopted a lot of Polish words.

>>53271327
>tfw Received Pronunciation American accents are extinct now.

Fuck immigrants lads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgXVJJyzZ00
This is how god intended for English to be spoken.

fat tongues

I read a Bill Bryson book that said the basic American accent was already a thing in small English towns, and they emigrated to America. The differing regional accents then developed over time

>>53272046
That's not an RP American accent. That's a midatlantic accent that he had from the fact he lived in England as a boy

Dutch people from Leiden sound very American.

People from Amsterdam can sound a bit like New York.

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>>53271327
>Implying Americans have """"" accents"""""
Fuck off, foreigner.

>>53273553
This, we mostly don't have accents

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>>53273616
>>53273553

Are you both mutes?

>>53271903
>Also adopted a lot of Polish words.

wut
you mean Russian maybe
we're not influential

>>53273501

Isn't that dependent on how they learn English?

I've met a good many Indians that have (or try to have) a British accent, but that is how they learned English. Then I've met Germans that are very fluent in English and speak English more like how Americans do.

>>53274021

I don't know the orginal of the words, but we had a massive immigration of Poles that came for work in the steel mills and a lot of Polish foods and words (again idk the orginal of the words) ended up becoming a norm in the area.

England

>>53271327
Native Americans IMO
When you hear them speak English it sounds like us except harder, ours is soft because it's still part British.