Depends on your definition of “accent” (yes, really). Is an accent a deviation from standard/dictionary, or is standard/dictionary also an accent?
Assuming standard isn’t accent, depends on the zone/individual. We all know about Brooklyn and Southern drawl and Minnesotan, etc.
Assuming standard isn’t accent, Americans have less accent than other English-speakers, but more accent than you’d think. For example, Americans say “budder” instead of “butter”.
I think the closest widely spoken accent to what was spoken in England a few hundred years ago is southern American IIRC. I think there’s actually an island in Virginia that is almost totally isolated, and they have what we suspect is the closest.
It’s still all accents obviously, but if you mean the least changed from what it used to be at one point (which is different than what it was at a different point), you are mostly correct. Obviously there are still a million variations of American accents, and even a lot of variations of the southern American accent.
Americans are the ones without accents.
If you didn’t almost certainly have a gun on you right now, you’d be in for it mister.
I think the closest widely spoken accent to what was spoken in England a few hundred years ago is southern American IIRC. I think there’s actually an island in Virginia that is almost totally isolated, and they have what we suspect is the closest.
It’s still all accents obviously, but if you mean the least changed from what it used to be at one point (which is different than what it was at a different point), you are mostly correct. Obviously there are still a million variations of American accents, and even a lot of variations of the southern American accent.