North American English
There 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. Similarly, the accents of Newfoundland have some similarities to the accents of Scotland and Ireland.
Yorkshire dialect
The following features are recessive, and are generally less common amongst younger than older speakers in Yorkshire:Most Yorkshire accents are non-rhotic. At the time of the Survey of English Dialects, fully rhotic accents could be found in Swaledale, Lonsdale, Ribblesdale, and the rural area west of Halifax and Huddersfield, and the accents on the east coast of Yorkshire were rhotic when /r/ is in final position but not in pre-consonantal position.