How do accents develop?

How do accents develop as they do?

  • when you think of how many different countries speak English as a first language but all with their own accents even when they are close or even bordering each other like England, Scotland and Wales for example.

  • Answer:

    the same way fashion trends. Your brain starts flowing down the river and you pick up the paddle and row. MY BLACK AMERICAN friend developed Jamaican accent, then developed English accent in a matter of 2 years. People have different accents that live across town from one another. Its more about who you see from the time you wake up to the time you go to sleep.

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