So I understand that people from different countries will speak English differently. But how does it work with north / south of a country? Or even districts – like Brooklyn accent?
In my country we don’t have accents. Everyone speaks the same. How come in English people from Yorkshire speak different than people from London?
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I seen this in reference to Australia when it became a penal colony. Reasoning went like this. People from all over the United Kingdom, all with their own dialects where sent there and forced to intigrate. There where obviously problems in communicating with each other and so they started to use similar sounding words and modified them so all could understand. With more obscure words that did not mesh they basically invented or adobted a new word. Within a relative short time what you get from this the unique Australian accent. That all happened in less than 100 years.
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