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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Accents/dialects evolved in both countries, and both sound a lot different than the original English of the 1600s. Actually, there are some communities in the U.S. that have remained fairly isolated over the centuries and possibly have the most similarity to what English used to sound like – e.g. some pockets of Boston and Virginia. Check out this [“tour” of the U.S. dialects](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1KP4ztKK0A&t=688s&ab_channel=WIRED), it’s amazing how varied American accents actually are.
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