Accents?

[Tpower]

Strange question I know but why do people have accents?? Once upon a time we must have all sounded the same so what happened to make different regions pronounce words differently.....

[Hippy]

I think it was the other way around. In earlier periods, because we did not move around much and there was no radio and TV, people had a local way of speaking that developed separately from folk who came from over the mountain range, hill, river, lake, inlet or whatever.

A common language and pronunciation, free from regional dialect, has only been an issue relatively recently since the widespread use first of reading and writing, then successively of travel, communications, radio and TV as means of disseminating propaganda and the moulding of ideas and beliefs on a national and international scale. See also "Received Pronunciation".

[bauldreetj02]

The answer that you seek is in the bible. Genisis 11:1-9.Goto bibledatabase.net.scroll down and pick your language and version.If english langauge I recommend young's literal translation,on the bottom right.