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Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 day agoFun fact: southern Americans speak English more traditionally than anyone else. The British have fucked up the pronunciation so hard at this point. Their spelling is typically more traditional though, yeah.
quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Codpiece@feddit.uk 1 day ago
No, it’s evolved unlike American that had to be simplified for the general population.
Kobibi@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
People say this a lot but it’s just not true
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
That doesn’t actually say that it isn’t the closest to a classical British accent. It only says it’s diverged from the modern one. Yeah, it isn’t the same as the classical British accent, but I believe it preserves more of the characteristics than other English accents have. They’ve all diverged, but some less than others.
IIRC, there’s an island that’s very isolated in the US who’s accent is as close as possible to a classic British accent, but it’s a population of maybe a few dozen people, if that even at this point.