Hard disagree. (Heads up, gonna get real language wonk here.) American English is actually based off English peasant pronunciations. The whole modern British accents crap is actualy a late 19th century phenominon that was intended to replicate social caste systems by enforcing stupid cultural boarding school pronunciations. Yeah, really, look it up! American English is more akin to English as it was originally spoken. Most American immigrants were the undesirables of European society. Before there was American imperialism, there was British imperialism and, while fuck 'em both, I'm gonna stick with the historical pronunciation of the working class.
This sounds akin to the affected lisp that developed in the Spanish court because some noble had a lisp and didn't want him to dislike them. Making some pronunciations like E-beeth-a (Ibiza). Is that correct? That's something that definitely exists today, although not as prevalent as in earlier times.
Unfortunately that’s an urban legend. The seseo/ceceo goes way further back to like the 15th century. But there is something to be said about “early colonies” maintaining the “original “ language. The canaries and Puerto Rico are said to have the more “authentic” Spanish because they were isolated. This is more what is important to maintaining a type of regional accent.
I had a history teacher in middle school who has a very odd kinda bostoney accent, and once he told us a he met a linguist from britain who was really fascinated with his accent and said it was the closest to the original english they had ever heard in the wild.
Hard disagree. (Heads up, gonna get real language wonk here.) American English is actually based off English peasant pronunciations. The whole modern British accents crap is actualy a late 19th century phenominon that was intended to replicate social caste systems by enforcing stupid cultural boarding school pronunciations. Yeah, really, look it up! American English is more akin to English as it was originally spoken. Most American immigrants were the undesirables of European society. Before there was American imperialism, there was British imperialism and, while fuck 'em both, I'm gonna stick with the historical pronunciation of the working class.
This sounds akin to the affected lisp that developed in the Spanish court because some noble had a lisp and didn't want him to dislike them. Making some pronunciations like E-beeth-a (Ibiza). Is that correct? That's something that definitely exists today, although not as prevalent as in earlier times.
Unfortunately that’s an urban legend. The seseo/ceceo goes way further back to like the 15th century. But there is something to be said about “early colonies” maintaining the “original “ language. The canaries and Puerto Rico are said to have the more “authentic” Spanish because they were isolated. This is more what is important to maintaining a type of regional accent.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_Spanish_coronal_fricatives
Very phonetics heavy but gives a good overview of the “Spanish lisp”
Fucking righteous! I learned something today. (Learning is my favorite.) A genuine thank you! :party-blob:
I've heard the same about the pronunciation of Thames (as in the river)
I can totally see that. Thames (rhymes with James) and Thames (rhymes with hems).
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Yes! Appalachian American English is actually closest to original pronunciations, lol.
Mainly English/Scottish colonists and isolated so makes sense if you think about it.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english
I had a history teacher in middle school who has a very odd kinda bostoney accent, and once he told us a he met a linguist from britain who was really fascinated with his accent and said it was the closest to the original english they had ever heard in the wild.