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Article: QUIZZICAL.(questions and answers - English accents, prevalence of lightening, oldest building in London, England)
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- October 1, 2001
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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
GLOBAL BROGUES
Q HOW have places like Australia and the USA developed accents unique to their country? Surely they should have a mixture of European accents.
A The accents of English spoken in the USA and Australia derive from the accents of England. You can trace each feature of American English and Australian English to a corresponding feature in one or the other of the accents of the British Isles.
If all the speakers of English who came to the new continents came with the same accent, that would be the accent of the new places. However, they did not; they came from all over England, Scotland, and Ireland.
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