e main effect of the vast diversification of the American population, and the processes bywhich the languages came into contact was that the English spoken by Americans tended tolevel out. This was observed as early as 1781, by John Witherspoon, Scottish President of
Princeton University, who remarked that people…
“being much more unsettled, and moving frequently fro
m place to place, they are not
so liable to local peculiarities either in accent or phraseology”
(Baugh and Cable, 2002:357
e main effect of the vast diversification of the American population, and the processes bywhich the languages came into contact was that the English spoken by Americans tended tolevel out. This was observed as early as 1781, by John Witherspoon, Scottish President of Princeton University, who remarked that people… “being much more unsettled, and moving frequently from place to place, they are notso liable to local peculiarities either in accent or phraseology” (Baugh and Cable, 2002:357
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