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I've heard people say that the American accent was the original accent of English lower classes and that the British accent came about because of its association with the upper classes, but is there any evidence for this? Where does this view come from? Is it a misconception?
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>>2994561
No
It's more like the posh accent grew in the UK and the lower class English accents is /closer/ to general American accents then it is to the posh accent.
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>>2994561
theres a good youtube video about this that went viral a while ago where a guy reads shakespeare in the original accent it would have been performed, basically america and britain had the same accent at one time, but they both diverged contrary to what most people think, that only the american accent diverged. I remember people commenting on the video that the original accent sounds more American than British, but personally I don't think it sounds American at all. Anyway, the expert in the video says he reconstructed the accent from studying the rhyming and poetic patterns of original unabridged shakespeare plays, which is sort of dubious but at least it kind of makes sense.
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>>2994561
Pre vowel shift was the original accent everything else is an unintelligible abomination.
https://youtu.be/gPlpphT7n9s
https://youtu.be/7Wl-OZ3breE
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