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I've heard that most Americans from the South came from a specific area of UK, are there any British accents that are similar to the US Southern accent?
As a native Southerner, my take is there are different Southern accents, some of which I like and some I despise.
I can't stand the NY/NJ accent.
The New Orleans accent is unlike any other Southern accent and I think is what came from combining the French/Irish/Italian immigrants that arrived there.
I've heard that most Americans from the South came from a specific area of UK, are there any British accents that are similar to the US Southern accent?
As a native Southerner, my take is there are different Southern accents, some of which I like and some I despise.
I can't stand the NY/NJ accent.
The New Orleans accent is unlike any other Southern accent and I think is what came from combining the French/Irish/Italian immigrants that arrived there.
Settlers to the American South came from all over the British Isles in the 18th century. But particularly well represented were immigrants from Ulster, Northern England, and Scotland, plus to a lesser extent South West England.
There's no accent in Britain that sounds very much like any of the Southern US varieties, but if you hear various accents from all over Britain, you can kind of piece together where different attributes of Southern US English came from.
Settlers to the American South came from all over the British Isles in the 18th century. But particularly well represented were immigrants from Ulster, Northern England, and Scotland, plus to a lesser extent South West England.
There's no accent in Britain that sounds very much like any of the Southern US varieties, but if you hear various accents from all over Britain, you can kind of piece together where different attributes of Southern US English came from.
on a smiliar note a few years ago I saw a documentary about fishing communities in Maine where the old guys had accents that sounded similar to the accents heard today from other old guys in Cornwall and devon.
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