here are a considerable number of different accents within the regions of both the United

States and Canada, originally deriving from the accents prevalent in

different English, Scottish and Irish regions of the British Isles and corresponding to settlement
patterns of these peoples in the colonies. These were developed and built upon as new waves of
immigration, and migration across the North American continent, brought new accents
and dialects to new areas, and as these ways of speaking merged and assimilated with the
population. It is claimed that despite the centuries of linguistic changes there is still a resemblance
between the English East Anglia accents which would have been used by early English settlers
in New England (including the Pilgrims), and modern Northeastern United States accents.[clarification
needed][10]
Similarly, the accents of Newfoundland have some similarities to the accents
of Scotland and Ireland.