Quote Originally Posted by Freedom Onanist View Post
Well at the time they would've sounded much closer to each other, though not how either sound today. In as much as they the settlers were colonial Brits they would've sounded British, certainly for gameplay purposes it makes sense.
At that time though, British sounded much CLOSER (though not exactly like) to modern Americans than to modern British. It was a very raw and growling language and they graged their vowels out really long. That is the opinion of most important lingual experts I have heard at least.