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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Divergence of British and American Accents. #202308 09/07/2011 12:59 AM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA TheFallibleFiend veteran TheFallibleFiend veteran Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA A friend posted this: http://www.nicholasjohnpatrick.com/post/767354896/did-americans-in-1776-have-british-accents Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Divergence of British and American Accents. TheFallibleFiend #202309 09/07/2011 4:52 AM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,974 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,974 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water I don't know much about it, but there are divergences in British accents too, are there not? Cockney, Liverpudlian, Northumbrian. US has Boston, Texan, Southern, etc. ----please, draw me a sheep---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Divergence of British and American Accents. LukeJavan8 #202312 09/07/2011 10:22 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 You want oversimplification, defining an accent by whether it's rhotic or not is an oversimplification. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Divergence of British and American Accents. Faldage #202324 09/07/2011 7:25 PM Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 131 Oregon va-vavoom member va-vavoom member Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 131 Oregon is that a main basis of accents? rhotic or non-rhotic? Until you brought that up recently when I was asking about pronunciation markings/sounds I didn't even know there was a name for the 'put in/take out an R' thing. Seems like more than just 'R' is affected in accents. ~===,===,=^=< Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Divergence of British and American Accents. TheFallibleFiend #202325 09/07/2011 7:50 PM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA TheFallibleFiend veteran TheFallibleFiend veteran Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA The blog post doesn't do justice to the source it lists. http://books.google.com/books?id=ia5tHVt...epage&q&f=false While I haven't read it all, I'm not sure it entirely agrees with the other reference, a wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhotic_and_non-rhotic_accents Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Divergence of British and American Accents. va-vavoom #202363 09/10/2011 11:10 AM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh is that a main basis of accents? rhotic or non-rhotic? Nope, rhotic and non-rhotic s just one difference in accents. There are many more. Other variations are mentioned in the Wikipedia article on regional varieties of English (link). Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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