Somehow, I think where the original British immigrants settled (and therefore where specific accents or dialects congregated) would have more to do with the port of origin and the wave of/reason for immigration. I don't know enough about that. I know that settlers were promised land in what is now the southern states and I know that indentured labourers were sent to work that land, but I don't know where they were sent from. As for the northern states, I know even less.
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Date: 2011-08-27 02:53 pm (UTC)