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  • July 26, 2013 at 6:16 pm #3561
    Phidippides
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    Here's an article about how/when the Americans got rid of their British accents.  The short answer: no one knows for sure. When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents?

    July 26, 2013 at 6:31 pm #28921
    scout1067
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    I would be willing to bet money it was sometime around the Revolution and done deliberately.

    July 26, 2013 at 8:54 pm #28922
    skiguy
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    I doubt it was that soon.  1/2 of the Americans were still loyalists and first generation Brits at the onset of the war.  I would guess about 2 generations away, probably just before the Civil War.  What about the Dutch, French, German, accents?

    July 26, 2013 at 9:28 pm #28923
    Phidippides
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    According to that article, the earliest recording they have is from around 1860, and the accent had already been lost by then.

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