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Mind blown: British people used to speak like Americans, not vice versa

https://www.livescience.com/33652-americans-brits-accents.ht...
Impertinent out-of-control plaza
  07/21/17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9nBGqOh4FQ
obsidian twisted area
  07/21/17
That really is mind blowing
Brindle Temple Rigpig
  07/21/17
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floppy bistre base
  07/21/17
explain the northeast accent
Rose corner potus
  07/21/17
most british aristocracy/old world money in america was in s...
floppy bistre base
  07/21/17
That's how they explain southern accents not northern ones
pearl pungent parlor
  07/21/17
Boston and charleston both started with the same accent tryi...
Saffron Violent Set Jew
  07/21/17
WTF
Chocolate electric becky
  07/21/17
I always heard that in the 18th century most people speaking...
cerebral doobsian business firm
  07/21/17
that is fucking bizarre
Impertinent out-of-control plaza
  07/21/17
It's crazy. They also started adding "u" to words ...
flesh curious church
  07/21/17
You can pwn any shitbrit by pointing out their intrusive R u...
stimulating ladyboy
  07/21/17
https://youtu.be/M7g6pw_0W1U
Lemon Gas Station
  07/21/17
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flesh curious church
  07/21/17
HO LEE FUK
magenta site
  07/21/17
they also reversed Ls and Rs like ching chong chang peoples.
Mint Regret French Chef
  07/21/17
Fun fact: American Sign Language and British Sign Language a...
white boiling water
  07/21/17
whaaaat
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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:23 PM
Author: Impertinent out-of-control plaza

https://www.livescience.com/33652-americans-brits-accents.html

It was the british who started speaking differently in the late 1700's....they used to sound like Americans.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33823776)



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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:32 PM
Author: obsidian twisted area

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9nBGqOh4FQ

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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:39 PM
Author: Brindle Temple Rigpig

That really is mind blowing

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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:39 PM
Author: floppy bistre base



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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:42 PM
Author: Rose corner potus

explain the northeast accent

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33823931)



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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:44 PM
Author: floppy bistre base

most british aristocracy/old world money in america was in south boston

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33823946)



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Date: July 21st, 2017 1:05 PM
Author: pearl pungent parlor

That's how they explain southern accents not northern ones

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33824073)



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Date: July 21st, 2017 2:37 PM
Author: Saffron Violent Set Jew

Boston and charleston both started with the same accent trying to copy the brits. Boston Brahmans are what they sounded like.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33824838)



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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:46 PM
Author: Chocolate electric becky

WTF

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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:47 PM
Author: cerebral doobsian business firm

I always heard that in the 18th century most people speaking English probably sounded sort of like Jimmy Carter.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33823965)



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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:48 PM
Author: Impertinent out-of-control plaza

that is fucking bizarre

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33823970)



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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:55 PM
Author: flesh curious church

It's crazy. They also started adding "u" to words (like colour) to distance themselves from America.

Shakespeare's English was rhotic, unlike current British received pronunciation. People performing Shakespeare's plays back then would sound like pirates to us.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33824018)



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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:55 PM
Author: stimulating ladyboy

You can pwn any shitbrit by pointing out their intrusive R usage

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33824019)



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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:59 PM
Author: Lemon Gas Station

https://youtu.be/M7g6pw_0W1U

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Date: July 21st, 2017 1:02 PM
Author: flesh curious church



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Date: July 21st, 2017 2:30 PM
Author: magenta site

HO LEE FUK

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Date: July 21st, 2017 2:44 PM
Author: Mint Regret French Chef

they also reversed Ls and Rs like ching chong chang peoples.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33824918)



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Date: July 21st, 2017 3:01 PM
Author: white boiling water

Fun fact: American Sign Language and British Sign Language are completely unintelligible to each other because the first school for the deaf in America was founded by a teacher who studied in France and brought back a sign teacher from there. ASL is in the French Sign Language family.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33825116)



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Date: July 21st, 2017 3:01 PM
Author: Bateful chrome genital piercing

whaaaat

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33825121)