why does australia and new zeland have a simular accent to british?

Question

didnt great britin colinize north america to but why canadians and americans have simular accent and why did the british have influnced australia and new zeland with thier accent.

Answer 1

Because our ancestors were mainly of British stock, the language came with them.
Far from the rest of the world at the time with out the outside influences, our language developed until what it is today.
New Zealander

Answer 2

Considering the British colonised America a good while before coming to New Zealand and Australia, is there no wonder there is a difference in accent.

New Zealand and Australia have really only been colonised by British in the last 150-200years and the people who colonised it made the accents the way they did. THe isolation also helped amplify the accents too. Sometime when I hear actors butchering the Australian accent they sound like cockney english or vice versa....americans in particular do not seem to pick up on the differences.
When I went to england some people could not tell the differnce in my New Zealand accent and Australians (or I was called South African!!) but could definately tell I was NOT from there. We don;t consider our accent to be anything like english and they don't consider our accents like theirs.....again when americans do a new zealand accent they make it sound english!!!! HA!
New Zealand in particular have short vowel sounds (confirmed to me by an aussie) we have a more relaxed way of saying things. I was constantly being reminded that I was saying Bin and Glin and pin instead of Ben, Glen and pen.
I guess living in these places means you understand the accents better that hearing them in isolation like you probalby are.

Answer 3

First there is no such thing as a British accent. Britain covers England, Scotland and Wales and there is a variation in accents even from town to town, never mind region to region. For example, I come from Norwich, a city in the east of England, and the accent in the city differs even from the surrounding county of Norfolk. Then in Scotland, you have a huge difference between a Highland accent and a lowland accent, the borders accent is different again (and eventually it merges into Geordie as you get down to the north-east of England)... an Edinburgh accent is much softer than Glasgow .Liverpool is unique (thank goodness!!!).. get the drift?

Second, yes, we colonised and populated most of North America, Australia and New Zealand. But their accents are now totally different from ours. I would say there is more of an Irish influence on all of them than anywhere in Britain - there was after all massive Irish immigration both to America and Australia.

PS Try the spell check before posting next time!

Answer 4

Australian and New Zealand accents are different from each other and easy to pick. Accents are developing in Australia with the Adelaide accent the most distinctive. There are over 100 different accents in the UK. There are two major accents in Canada and four in the USA. Anyone with an ear can pick the differences.

Answer 5

These places were settled almost exclusively by Brits for a couple of hundred years, and their speech maintained its unique sound. The American accent is primarily Irish, although all the immigrant tongues have had a part in creating its unique un-British sound.

Answer 6

I too, would suggest that you fully utilise Spellcheck. What you have written in your question smacks of a puerile and uncouth accent.
By writing the question clearly, you will be given clear and concise answers.
Actually, a little thought would have obviated the need for this question.
Ka kite

Answer 7

Do you need your ears cleaned out or what ???
We sound nothing alike (except when you yanks try to do us on South Park ) and to say that to us Aussies is an insult.!!