where did different accents come from?

i was wondering how different english speakers have different accents. like how the english talk one way irish another, australian, canadian another, america a few(new england one, southern, mid west/heartland., a few others). how the hell did this happen?

p.s im pretty stoned

im from new york... i have a new york/italian accent i geuss. both my parents were born in italy, italian is whats spoken at home. so thats where mine comes from..

i say new yawk and caw-fee (coffee)

Thats actually a very good question. If your looking for a complete and in-depthh response I can't help, but basically accents are forms of dialects (abeit less extreme). Dialects form when different regions of a country (country = group of people/area of land which speak the same language) are isolated enough from one another as to prohibit (or seriously restrict) direct exposure to one another. Also aiding this would be slight differences in cultures possibly requiring unique verbiage between regions.

Hope that helps :)

i aint got a fuckin clue but i hav often thought about it myself... hav any of u americans ever heard a scouse accent??? (that's ppl frm liverpool in england if ya didn't know)

Is that like the accent in Clockwork Orange?

nah man dats cockney... frm london... probly th only ppl frm liverpool u'l know is the beatles an they weren't real scousers they were posh lol... gud film clockwork orange tho

yea good book too

Aussies talk kinda in between English,Irish and Aboriginie i think well they were the first ones here.

anytime you group people together, they grow off each other and start speaking / behaving in similar ways. Then you've got a culture, a language, and a dialect. This happens at thousands of different places in the world, and they're each unique. With all these new levels of communication we are reaching as a species, I'm sure many of the lines between cultures will begin to fade as we unify into larger groups.

But even in the different cities in my state, there are different accents and cultures that grow out.. If you sit an American down in England for long enough, they'll start to pick up the accent. If you sit a white kid down in the middle of a bunch of black kids, he'll start talking like them pretty quick. Its a constantly moving force.

Wow man. Thats deep.
-Icey-