You can hear the roots of North American English dialects in this 90 year old recording of a man from Somerset in England's West Country
https://youtu.be/XsB90aJ6Jp8
https://youtu.be/XsB90aJ6Jp8
YouTube
The Somerset Accent
http://www.videobash.com
The last remnants of what the Proto-American accent would have sounded like from a region of Britain from 80 years ago.
The last remnants of what the Proto-American accent would have sounded like from a region of Britain from 80 years ago.