Specifically I’m wondering how the typical English accent became the typical western accent (Which sounds relatively country), and how did that become the modern accents on the West Coast? What factor was added in that made cowboys start sounding like the modern day Californian.
I’m assuming the typical NY accent comes from Italians coming over.
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Bonus question: Why are there no places in the US at all that kept the English accents????
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As a very similar situation, we can look happened for the french part of North America, although Quebec and France originally spoke the same they are now very different, most seem explanation seem to be that france language evolved quicker than Quebec as Quebec still has a lot of similarity with old french, I think given some post in the thread that it’s similar with English from the US as well
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