Quote Originally Posted by capecoddah
Quote Originally Posted by ndemeis
We pronounce our R's


AH isn't pronounced heah some times. Read my name. I drive a cah.
"Consonant displacement theory" We send "R" to the Midwest states to use in words like "Warsh" (wash).
Kind of what I was getting at. (and Boston doesn't count! j/k, lived there but didn't notice the accent much) There is no real English accent. I mean the southern draw accent is closer to original queens English or England several hundred years ago. But like we all know languages evolve and change. English I think more so as it is such an international language now.

Even in England you are starting to see many people stop using the present perfect and adopting the more american version of past simple. What we will have, in my opinion, is a new international english that you are already seeing that shares similarities in all languages. Not to say we will lose our accents and dialects but some new interesting things will come about.

I mean we have more people speaking English as a second language than a first which will change our langauge. Only time will tell whats next.