• Question: why do people who live in different areas have different accents?

    Asked by vicmet to Hayley, Jason, Sophie on 21 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Hayley Evers-King

      Hayley Evers-King answered on 21 Mar 2013:

      I guess its a bit similar to different languages . Accents evolve over time in specific areas and people who are born and grow up in those areas learn how to talk from people with those accents so they pick them up too.

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