• uenticx@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      Weird, I learned rhotic was pretty much standard dialect around the time North America was colonized … wouldn’t that mean it’s the other way around in reality? (Honest no rage-bait question). I was taught and repeatedly read over the years that modern British dialect sounded more American then, and only changed with more inter-colonization from surrounding countries?

      • Rothe@piefed.social
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        59 minutes ago

        Nah, you have learnt what is largely an overblown myth. The whole “American sounds more like Shakespeare’s English than modern British English” is completely false, but it gets repeated ad nauseam by Americans on the internet.

      • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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        11 hours ago

        We still have some rhotic accents. They don’t sound American though - just rhotic - like how Frasier’s non-rhotic accent doesn’t sound English.