Interesting musings on accents, definitely! I agree with your points about why accents may change. My accent doesn't reflect where I was born-and-raised because of a conscious decision that I did not want to sound that way. Oddly, my attempts to change to a more neutral accent were successful, but then I moved, by chance, to an area where people talked like that! LOL! Thanks for sharing this interesting and charming post with #steemitbloggers 😊