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Whenever I hear the "British accent of the 1700" I just don't really believe it. There isn't a British accent now. There are many many different accents, all wi

• arp242 3y ago
  They said "a British accent", as in, "one accent among others".
• JohnFen 3y ago
  Right, as I mentioned. Same with American or even Southern American accents. There are a wide variety of distinct ones on both sides of the pond. The various accents do tend to have features in common, though, so you can hear that the various southern accents are part of the same family, and similarly with the various British accents. There are, of course, exceptions to this as well. This bit of linguistic history is really referring to a fairly specific American accent and a fairly specific British accent.