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Putting this in pre-1900, but I suppose this could apply to post-1900 as well.

Are there any timelines that put detail into describing how the accents that develop in their timeline, as a result of differing circumstances, might diverge from OTL? For instance, there must be a ton of stories written on this board featuring the U.S. conquering Canada during the American Revolution or the War of 1812 - has anyone attempted to describe how the French Canadian accent might have evolved differently in a world where Quebec was a U.S. state for around 200 years?

I use that merely as an example. More generally, what rules would people need to keep in mind for developing alternate accents? And does anyone have any compelling ideas for what sort of accents could have developed in any part of the world had history gone a little differently?
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