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d0nni3 said:

Barozi said:

d0nni3 said:
Just had a thought being that the colonisation of America was still in it's infancy (4 - 5 generations) the American accent wouldn't have developed away from the english accent to a really noticable level will the American figures be voiced with accents more akin to the english accent for more historical accuracy

(i know this is not going to happen just a thought)

As far as I know is the current American English accent closer to the accent spoken in that time than modern British English, so the answer would be no.

Accent wise as far as i'm aware has evolved to what it is today from the civil war period and the mixing of the settlements, however you'd be right in the words used in speech as American English retained quite a few words which were fazed out in British English

i'm no expert so i could be very wrong but as much as British English evolves quicky in term of slang the accent doesn't change a great deal alot of our accents are ancient and have existed very long time in a similar form, so in all likelihood the accent at the time was probably alot closer to english than the current American English accent.

As i said this aint going to happen it was just a thought

Not saying it was the same accent or even very close, I'm just saying it is closer than modern British English.
I'm studying English and I know this topic was part in one of my linguistic classes (I've learned the same in school already). Not only words (dialect), but also in pronounciation (accent).
For example the majority of the people in North America and Australia have a rhotic accent, whereas the majority of the British people have a non-rhotic accent, but they had a rhotic accent a few hundred years ago.