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[–] 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The US one evolved as well, just preserved rhoticity which is a major feature. There's no "UK accent" (nor "us accent") either - West country accents for example are still rhotic

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    There’s no “UK accent” (nor “us accent”)

    There is an accent called General American (GenAm), however.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American_English?useskin=vector

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Sure but even that isn't all encompassing. I'm from SoCal and my accent/dialect has so many archaicisms that I'm probably one of the only people under 50 with the damned thing. What I get for being around old people I guess.

    Though I do suppress into something approaching the general accent when talking to others, mostly because for example Mountain Dew gets mangled into münten doo.

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