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When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents?
Matt Soniak, mentalfloss.com

Read­ers Nick and Riela have both writ­ten to ask how and when Eng­lish colonists in Amer­i­ca lost their British accents and how Amer­i­can accents came about.

Rev­o­lu­tion­ary War Reen­act­ment Image via Shut­ter­stock

First,…