> The English spoken in America is from immigrants from the UK. Yes, but immigration involved language mixing. It's not like a remote village in Scotland coul

> The English spoken in America is from immigrants from the UK. Yes, but immigration involved language mixing. It's not like a remote village in Scotland could elect two hundred people to hop on a ship, cross the sea, and settle down in another remote village in Montana. For their kids born in America, they would have been lucky to find one other family that spoke the same dialect. So the differences averaged out, in the same way kids growing up in London speak London's dialect regardless of where their ancestors came from.