at what point in history do you think americans stopped having british accents

Actually, Americans still have the original British accent. We kept it over time and Britain didn’t. What we currently coin as a British accent developed in England during the 19th century among the upper class as a symbol of status. Historians often claim that Shakespeare sounds better in an American accent.

whAT THE FUCK

I’m too tired for this

Always add in the video that according to linguists, Native southern drawl is a slowed down British.

T’ be or not t’be, y’all.

Fun fact: Same thing happened with the French accent. French Canadians still have the original French accent from the 15th century.

Êt’e ou n’pô zêt’e, vous z’auts.

I’ve been trying to find this post for months. I’m freakishly obsessed with this and want the truth of what early colonists sounded like.

Wait, Meredith.

Viola Davis has never shied away from harsh truths. On Tuesday, Davis spoke to the Stuart House (a nonprofit for sexually abused children) about trauma in her own family.  Through her speech, she explained how abuse changes survivors’ lives and what she wishes she could say to her sister now: “I wish I could tell my sister …”

Memories demand attention, because memories have teeth. 

This blog will make you feel at peace

For a moment I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone.

This is why I love my doctor.

Look at this fossil

Reblog if you started worrying about the way you look before you were even 16.

i hope this doesn’t get any notes.

damn

I was about 8 I think

Fucking 7 years old.

I was six when my family started telling me I need to eat less because i won’t be pretty and no one will marry me. Also my dance teacher used to scream at me in front of 50 other dancers to suck in my stomach and start exercising outside of rehearsals. 

at 4 years old when I started kindergarten the kids told me I was ugly. I swear that shit stuck with me my whole life. Kids are evil as fuck

I think 11? My chest started growing at such a rapid rate, and I hated it. I even asked my doctor for medicine to make it stop. it was bad.

I was 11 as well.

i could count calories before i could do division.