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I wonder if the lack of such mergers is evidence that the New York City accent is the closest to the original English.
by MockObject 5y ago
I wonder if the lack of such mergers is evidence that the New York City accent is the closest to the original English.
- ncmncm 5y agoThere is no such thing as "original English". At most there are snapshots taken of mainstream English, or of some offshoot, from some past moment, since evolving more slowly. The greatest variety of forms and accents is found in England, Scotland, and Wales, far exceeding variation in all the colonies combined. English tabloid newspapers have absurdly popular columns peeving about some abominable usage in one or other colony that, in every case, originated in mainland England and was very common typically between 400 and 100 years ago, and just fell out of fashion there. English peeving, thus, always turns out to be complaints that colonies do not slavishly follow London fashions. Yosemite Sam represents a snapshot of Victorian English.