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Originally Posted by Poppinjay
I respectfully disagree. England has as many different accents as some U. S. regions, but some U.S. states have more accents than England as a whole.
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I'd respectfully disagree with that statement. Language tends to vary, to create more distinct dialects of itself, the longer it has been in situ (without the impact of mass media as occurs today, of course). We've seen this in many areas of the world and it is a prominent component of linguistic archealology. English having been present in England for a minimum of 1500 years (and possibly longer depending on which theory you follow) has created a greater diversity of dialects and accented language, heavily impacted by immigration from the Continent and Ireland (and more recently, from other parts of the world).