Why do people in different places have different accents?

Dreamer61dpl

It doesn't necessarily answer your question but there's a bit of information on a study they are doing involving accents at this link: http://www.otago.ac.nz/anthropology/Linguistic/Accents.html Jul 25 01, 12:07 AM

Gnomon

Accents start out as random variations in the way something is pronounced. Once a few people start doing it, it becomes an accent. If communities are isolated from each other, as they were up to about 200 years ago, this process of accent forming will continue until separate communities have different dialects, which included different words as well as different accents. Eventually different languages form, although this takes about 1000 years. With global communications, the process does not happen as much. People in America hear English accents, people in England hear American accents and the two are prevented from getting too far apart. Jul 25 01, 9:09 AM

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