Wow, I didn't expect someone to reply, let alone read my long post. I pay much attention to how people write on forums, but my sentence structure has stayed on a basic level. That's not true, you write well! I didn't explain this

Wells's (1) TRAP class, and also his BATH class for those of us who don't use the "father" vowel in "bath" etc. But particular accents of AmE show wildly different realizations of this vowel. At one extreme you have

I've always felt that many American accents reflect aspects of the regional accents in the areas the original English-speaking colonists ... from the period beteween the 1930s and the 1950s and compare the RP accents with those regarded as RP

I've always felt that many American accents reflect aspects of the regional accents in the areas the original English-speaking colonists came from. There is no question about it. The Eastern Shore is one place where they still retain the