Anyone know what the founding fathers sound like?
Best we have to go off of, are these specific accent/dialects
Cape Islander: youtube.com
High tider:
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Jonesport, Main:
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Best guess is something like an East Anglian accent. (Don't forget, those in England would have changed too)
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I heard that the way Americans speak today is the way British people spoke back than and vice versa. Is this true or just normielore?
Definitely normie lore.
The only identifiable Americanism that the British had back then, was that the R was more pronounced, but I think even that has some falsehood as well.
Also, there wouldn't be the existence of those particular accents (in the videos) if Englishman sounded like Americans.
The accent we hear across America (And Canada) is largely influenced by German immigrants (The hard AU sound for example); California was largely populated by German immigrants, which lead to their distinctive accent. Meanwhile, the actual English settlers had more of an English accent, which progressed over time, with Irish, Scottish, French, and German settlers.
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Wow that first video is insane
>The hard AU sound
The use of adjectives "hard" and "soft" should be banned when talking about phonetic differences. They mean are used to mean 91230983 different things.
*they are used to mean
The American elite didn’t speak a pleb language, English, back then. That was the language of the masses.
They spoke French, and were all closeted or openly ouiaboos.
They spoke like Tony Soprano