My theories on accents

My theories on accents

The New York Accent

To me it sounds like a Dutch accent. New York used to be a Dutch colony and was called New Amsterdam. My theory is the New York accent sounds like a Dutch American accent. I realised this when listening to a Dutch man talking in English he sounds like a New Yorker.

 

The Liverpool accent

My view is that this accent is derived from the Viking accent. Remember when Jan Molby came over to play for Liverpool from Denmark. Then within 6 months he sounded like a scouser. In my view this is because the Liverpool accent is derived from Wirral vikings who were expelled from Ireland in 1000 years ago. They left a Viking accent in Liverpool.

 

The British Upper Class accent.

I think this is derived from the Norman French accent. The French accent sounds like the British Upper Class accent. The Normans took over England in 1066, and their elites accent dominated England for hundreds of years. This accent then spread across Scotland, and Wales after the union. So now British upper class people talk in Frenchified accent. I decided this when I was listening to the radio in another room, and thought I heard a French man talking I walked through to find a upper class man had been talking.

 

The USA accent

I think this is from Ulster Scots accent. Huge number of Scots emigrated to Northern Ireland then emigrated to the American colonies, in my view resulting in the America accent. 

 

The Geordie accent

I think this is a half way house accent between the Scottish accent and the Yorkshire accent.

 

The Australian Accent

To me this sounds like a London accent. There must have been lots of people moving from London in the original days of the colonies.