What changes could occur in American English that would make it a bit different from OTL? Like, say the US remains isolationist and the guilded age continues. Remaining outside of European affairs could cause the US to have not have anti Germanism as in . OTL. This causes the German language to stay longer as a widely spoken language. I could see German influences being bigger on Midwestern accents along with German loanwords being more common. Perhaps a version of Hollywood or radio can cause the loanwords to be more widespread. With big business still influencing the US, perhaps immigration laws are looser, so foreign workers can be brought in with assurance that they'll be cheap since immigrants bring in cheap labor, so even the rich would give up any xenophobia to make a quick buck. This could lead to more Italians ands Russians coming in and as a result their languages influence the US. What about different names from different languages being more common like Schneider being a common last name or names from OTL staying or becoming more popular, like Annabelle being common in 2016, with people saying the full name and not just the short hand. What about objects having different names than OTL. Like in Max Sinister's Chaos TL, teddy bears are called mishkas as TR doesn't exist, while in Jared's TL DoD, radio is called Funk. These are just examples of how objects can have a different name, but in the former TL, German is spoken in North America, but I am focusing on the alternate name of objects from OTL.
So, what I would like for you guys to come up with probable changes in American English, that could happen because of altered events. Be it different immigration trends, different American expansion like what happened in Decades of Darkness, different world powers that end up with their language as a lingua franca, different inventors of stuff we know in OTL like the internet or Levi jeans, different trends in American History like Theodore Roosevelt dying of asthma as s child, so teddy bears are named differently, or other nations having a different history that causes them to become as culturally popular as Japan in OTL, and so people are eager to learn the language and pepper their speech with vocabulary from that language until it becomes mainstream.
TL;DR: Because of some altered events, American English has different developments in accents, what names are common/uncommon, what objects are called, different curses/expressions, more vocabulary from different languages, etc. What could these developments be? Brainstorm ideas. Not everyone has to make the same changes to history or have the same developments. I'd rather we all have different ideas of how things could change. Don't overanalyze probability of things being different, this is supposed to be fun. Focus on the changes, not the causes.
So, what I would like for you guys to come up with probable changes in American English, that could happen because of altered events. Be it different immigration trends, different American expansion like what happened in Decades of Darkness, different world powers that end up with their language as a lingua franca, different inventors of stuff we know in OTL like the internet or Levi jeans, different trends in American History like Theodore Roosevelt dying of asthma as s child, so teddy bears are named differently, or other nations having a different history that causes them to become as culturally popular as Japan in OTL, and so people are eager to learn the language and pepper their speech with vocabulary from that language until it becomes mainstream.
TL;DR: Because of some altered events, American English has different developments in accents, what names are common/uncommon, what objects are called, different curses/expressions, more vocabulary from different languages, etc. What could these developments be? Brainstorm ideas. Not everyone has to make the same changes to history or have the same developments. I'd rather we all have different ideas of how things could change. Don't overanalyze probability of things being different, this is supposed to be fun. Focus on the changes, not the causes.