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Davidrock65Half of Americans originated from England. They probably had the same accent at first---but why did they end up being different? How did the American accent evolve to be one of its own?

Is there a singular American accent?

There isn't a singular British accent that they could all have started with anyway. Britain has many very different accents. Unless everyone just stuck with people from their own area and accent, I'm sure everyone started picking up aspects of other accents on the boat over, and a new accent started coming to life then.

Then add to that the fact that America also had millions of people fr

Nona The BritThere isn't a singular British accent that they could all have started with anyway. Britain has many very different accents. Unless everyone just stuck with people from their own area and accent, I'm sure everyone started picking up aspects of other accents on the boat over, and a new accent started coming to life then.

Then add to that the fact that

If anything, British accents have been merging and becoming less diverse as time passes. The invention of the printing press did much to start some standardisation of English. There were certainly many different accents, and actual dialects, at the time of the first travels to America. You can find lots of examples of early travellers around Britain being unable to understand the different version