I don't understand why there's a "British accent" instead of American honestly. They spoke it first. :?Victorious_Fize
The British accents have been around a lot longer than the US has been. The original British accents were Celtic and an older forgotten language, then when the Vikings invaded the English accent became a Saxon one while Scottish, Irish and Welsh languages were appearing in their respective countries and developing from much older languages that are generally no longer used.
English began to appear over the centuries from then and was fast becoming a main language by the time the colonists from the British Isles and various other countries began to settle in the lands that would be named as America.
The American accent is more of a shifting from English to something with it's own grammer in a few areas and is a younger form of English. English itself is a young language compared to other older languages that had changed, adapted or ceased to be used. Latin for example is an old language that is no longer used while Japanese and Chinese have been around a long time, same with the African and Egyptian languages.
The British accent depends on region, not all English accents are a very crisp accent like you might hear from the rich bloods just as Scottish isn't the same language in every region within Scotland. An inland Scottish language is a much thicker language than a Scottish accent from closer to the ocean where it's a much faster accent and dialect.
It all comes down to regions really.
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