• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Actually, modern American English apparently is closer to the English from old days than modern day British English is. Always found that to be an interesting tidbit.

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      1 year ago

      Shakespeare apparently rhymes better in American accents than British ones, since it was written before the Great Vowel Shift. I’m not cultured enough to notice but I like this piece of trivia.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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      1 year ago

      In terms of spelling perhaps, but America being an amalgamation of many different types of immigrants has definitely affected American accents.

      And it’s not like the British/Irish/Scottish characters speak anything like they would’ve a century ago. Every current accent is current, there aren’t any accents that stay unchanged unless they’re only spoken in small communities completely separate from the rest of the world (and the internet). Language develops over time, that’s why we now have English teachers with opinions on when to use “less” and when to use “fewer”, and arbitrary rules like “don’t end a sentence with a preposition”.