On your point, IIRC the modern American English accent is closer to how the language was spoken in England than what the people in Ingerland speak currently
Edit: I’m wrong and stupid and dumb, the people below me know more about linguistics than I ever will
I’m pushing back gently on this as it’s one of those common internet fun facts, which is somewhat true but more complicated.
Both American English and UK English have gone through a dialectical (get it) change since points of separation.
Both have different idiosyncrasies left from their shared original early modern English. But both are also still quite different and changed by time and material conditions.
On your point, IIRC the modern American English accent is closer to how the language was spoken in England than what the people in Ingerland speak currentlyEdit: I’m wrong and stupid and dumb, the people below me know more about linguistics than I ever will
I’m pushing back gently on this as it’s one of those common internet fun facts, which is somewhat true but more complicated.
Both American English and UK English have gone through a dialectical (get it) change since points of separation.
Both have different idiosyncrasies left from their shared original early modern English. But both are also still quite different and changed by time and material conditions.