This claim is generally made less about Standard American or General American and more about regional Appalachian dialects. Even this is a myth. http://itre.ci

This claim is generally made less about Standard American or General American and more about regional Appalachian dialects. Even this is a myth. http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002699.html http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002699.h... http://lrc.ohio.edu/lrcmedia/Streaming/lingCALL/ling270/myth9.pdf http://lrc.ohio.edu/lrcmedia/Streaming/lingCALL/ling270/myth... English and American dialects both originated in (Shakespearean) Early Modern English, but both have changed over time, as languages do.