• Question: why do people have different accents? how did they occurr in different countries or areas of a country?

    Asked by carolinebellingan to Kat, Andrew, Katie, Sadaf on 20 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Andrew Swale

      Andrew Swale answered on 20 Jun 2013:

      If you think for example 200 years or more ago , there were no communication aids like radio or telephone , no-one travelled much unless they really needed to , and so there were many variations in language.

      In the same country people from one village or town or tribe , could possibly live their whole lives and never visit the ajoining town . Different expressions developed and wide variations in slang existed across a whole country .

      Some of this is still present today.

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