Perhaps 2 questions here. England is full of accents and dialects and America is too. Given our somewhat shared history – what caused this diversion ?
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You’re thinking about it wrong. American is several accents of english. Same as Australian English, Canadian english etc. All versions of english are the same base language with an accent.
Most of the deviation involved comes from the original settling population’s own accent changing, for example criminals who were sent to Australia didn’t have spectacular english (necessarily, some did) in the first place, so it’s evolved into modern Australian accents. Unfortunately I couldn’t tell you the exact circumstances of the American accents origin, but I doubt anyone could be that specific.
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