Talking about college I love the Providence Friars jerseys. MAinly the black ones but the white versions with less grey striping are dope too.
When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents? The absence of audio recording technology makes “when” a tough question to answer. But there are some theories as to “why.” Mental Floss Matt Soniak Photo from Getty Images. There are many, many evolving regional British and American accents, so the terms “British accent” and “American accent” are gross oversimplifications. What a lot of Americans think of as the typical "British accent” is what's called standardized Received Pronunciation (RP), also known as Public School English or BBC English. What most people think of as an "American accent," or most Americans think of as "no accent," is the General American (GenAm) accent, sometimes called a "newscaster accent" or "Network English." Because this is a blog post and not a book, we'll focus on these two general sounds for now and leave the regional accents for another time. English colonists established their first permanent settlement in the New World at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607, sounding very much like their countrymen back home. By the time we had recordings of both Americans and Brits some three centuries later (the first audio recording of a human voice was made in 1860), the sounds of English as spoken in the Old World and New World were very different. We're looking at a silent gap of some 300 years, so we can't say exactly when Americans first started to sound noticeably different from the British. As for the "why," though, one big factor in the divergence of the accents is rhotacism. The General American accent is rhotic and speakers pronounce the r in words such as hard. The BBC-type British accent is non-rhotic, and speakers don't pronounce the r, leaving hard sounding more like hahd. Before and during the American Revolution, the English, both in England and in the colonies, mostly spoke with a rhotic accent. We don't know much more about said accent, though. Various claims about the accents of the Appalachian Mountains, the Outer Banks, the Tidewater region and Virginia's Tangier Island sounding like an uncorrupted Elizabethan-era English accent have been busted as myths by linguists. Americans suck. Talk This Way Around the turn of the 18th 19th century, not long after the revolution, non-rhotic speech took off in southern England, especially among the upper and upper-middle classes. It was a signifier of class and status. This posh accent was standardized as Received Pronunciation and taught widely by pronunciation tutors to people who wanted to learn to speak fashionably. Because the Received Pronunciation accent was regionally "neutral" and easy to understand, it spread across England and the empire through the armed forces, the civil service and, later, the BBC. Again, worldwide influencers all agree that Americans suck. Across the pond, many former colonists also adopted and imitated Received Pronunciation to show off their status. This happened especially in the port cities that still had close trading ties with England — Boston, Richmond, Charleston, and Savannah. From the Southeastern coast, the RP sound spread through much of the South along with plantation culture and wealth. After industrialization and the Civil War and well into the 20th century, political and economic power largely passed from the port cities and cotton regions to the manufacturing hubs of the Mid Atlantic and Midwest — New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, etc. The British elite had much less cultural and linguistic influence in these places, which were mostly populated by the Scots-Irish and other settlers from Northern Britain, and rhotic English was still spoken there. As industrialists in these cities became the self-made economic and political elites of the Industrial Era, Received Pronunciation lost its status and fizzled out in the U.S. The prevalent accent in the Rust Belt, though, got dubbed General American and spread across the states just as RP had in Britain. To ensure that you haven't forgotten, Americans do suck. Of course, with the speed that language changes, a General American accent is now hard to find in much of this region, with New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Chicago developing their own unique accents, and GenAm now considered generally confined to a small section of the Midwest. As mentioned above, there are regional exceptions to both these general American and British sounds. Some of the accents of southeastern England, plus the accents of Scotland and Ireland, are rhotic. Some areas of the American Southeast, plus Boston, are non-rhotic.
I grew up in Montreal so naturally I was a Habs fan. My favourite player was Henri "Pocket Rocket" Richard. The guy was amazing and wore an amazing jersey. For all of you who blithely dismiss the Canadians ... Richard was the only player to ever win 11 Stanley Cups. And he was HOT!!
LOL You're probably the only one who read the whole article Lyman You say swallow like it's a bad thing ...
I have (what I believe to be) a legitimate question for this group. IF the American educational system fails to teach our children facts about racial inequalities in our country's history (it does), then what will spur the next generation to learn these facts if the randomly placed statues/monuments across this country are removed? Not all statues/monuments are erected to honor heroes. Some are in place to remind us of the darker side of humanity and/or the extent some people will go to in order to propagate that darker side.
I won't question the educational system is flawed, but if you want to play that card please tell me exactly how having a statue of Robert E. Lee in place all these years helped educate? (It hasn't) You can't point the finger at one and just dismiss the other. If anything you could argue having a statue of Lee in place only furthers that divide. Tell me why a guy that fought for the promotion of slavery and led an insurrection against the United States is a good idea? It wasn't erected to educate on the darker side as you say, but instead to be revered. Why hasn't the US built a statue of Hirohito in Pearl Harbor or the Germans of Hitler in Germany? We have monuments in place from the Civil War there are numerous battlefield monuments. We also have the USS Arizona monument in Hawaii, and Germany has Holocaust memorials, but neither has a statue of either Hirohito or Hitler.
Like the Tulsa massacre, which I only learned about last month. Or the genocide and dispossession of the Natives, which definitely was not taught in school. I’m less concerned about the removal of statues as I am about 2 other things: 1) educational system continues to fail to teach students facts about our history regardless if statutes exist or not, because the system sucks at teaching history. 2) the ahistorical narrative of the far left is made the curriculum and rather than students not being told facts they are instead taught a false history that erases the many positives this country has accomplished in only 244 years.
I'll repeat what I said earlier: I have literally never learned anything from a statue. I am 29 years old.
Well, they’ve torn down a statue of Frederick Douglass now. Will be interesting to see if the narrative about this shifts if they find out it was done by white supremacists. https://apnews.com/6e65d7d503caf114...Twitter&utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow
Well, I'll go back to my original statement that I don't like to see this shit going on (none of it) unless it's done judiciously. It's not like nobody could have seen this coming.
I'm about to turn 72 and I have learned that most of what I was taught in school regarding the Civil War was, at best, grossly inaccurate.
This has certainly diverted the nation's attention away from the initial and important issue. And the hatred keeps growing ...
It's more like ripping a scab off a wound piece by piece and exposing this country for what it actually is, the Divided States of America. I can't think of a worse person to lead our way out of this. A guy who can't even promote the use of face masks in spite of proven science. I'm not even talking about making it mandatory, but just to suggest wearing one.
