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Accents eh? We all have one. In linguistic terms they are defined as how people speak their language. They develop when a group of people, who all speak the same language, are isolated.
Here’s a fascinating real-life example. A throng of people with different accents spend winter together in a very isolated part of the world: Antarctica. Researchers decided to track just how their speech changed during the winter.
There appeared to be some convergence in how those people spoke during those lonely winter months. Three of their vowels began to sound more similar, and they even showed signs of developing, as a group, a new way of pronouncing the vowel in words like ‘’go’’ and ‘’code’’ and ’’sew’’. What happened may have been the birthing of a new accent. ....

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