why did americans loose their british accents if were from britian?

Answer 1

They didn't loose them. The British adopted the British accent. In the 17th century, all English speakers had an accent that sounded just like the one you hear in Boston. As the British government repressed native Celtic dialects in the late 18th century, the British accent took on qualities from Celtic speakers, giving rise to the modern British accent. That is also why the British accent can vary from town to town in the same region, while the American accent is fairly consistent across the country.

Answer 2

Its very normal to loose accents especially when mixed with others ie french, Irish, dutch etc. Even now if someone moves from wales to Australia in a few years to the people back home they sound Australian but to the Australians very Welsh. There is no such thing as a British accent. There are hundreds of different accents in Britain so there was not one singular accent to loose. Does someone from Boston speak with the same accent as someone from Atlanta? No of course they dont but they are both still American accents.

Answer 3

There is no such thing as British accent, neither an American accent. It depends upon the region one lives in and is usually influenced by daily necessities and ingenuity of human beings to express themselves in a variety of voice modulations. Above all you really can't LOOSE an accent, you may lose if you ever had one.

Answer 4

I say ol chap Jolly good question!

If you had traveled England and other seafaring nations you will see that even they vary in accent. My Fair Lady makes a good show of that if you do not mind a musical. Listen to a Cockney or a Scot that is hardly English by any stretch. Then there is the Queens English. Dialect my boy dialect.

Also remember we are a melting pot and we tend to mimic those around us and hybrids are formed. It is really not a hard concept to grasp when you sit down and plot it out.

Answer 5

They evolved. British and American english split off when the first colonists arrived.

Keep in mind though that the variety of different accents in Britain is much higher than that in America. the word 'yeah', for example, used to be a dialect word from a tiny village in Sussex - but then someone from that village went over to the Stares and it spread. The Texas accent is actually close cousins with one in Lincolnshire.

Answer 6

There s no such factor as a British accessory. Britain is produced from 4 worldwide places: Scotland, England, Northern eire and Wales yet as quickly as I had to respond to, i might say the southern English accessory

Answer 7

Wait. This question is in, Religion and spirituality. why is it here?


Anyway, so many immigrants came from around the world, plus slaves, and the native Americans that were already here all of their accents combined to form the (insert American accent here).

Answer 8

There were more than just british. America had many people. A large percent of early americans were german.

Answer 9

They were not from Britain. Many first settlers were from the Netherlands and many other european countries. American English
is what came out of everyones adaptation of British English.

Answer 10

There isn't a british accent, there are many british accents