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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...
Crusty 180 Volcanic Crater
  07/21/17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9nBGqOh4FQ
self-absorbed claret coffee pot
  07/21/17
That really is mind blowing
Bright aphrodisiac dilemma
  07/21/17
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Buff trailer park
  07/21/17
explain the northeast accent
Flickering place of business location
  07/21/17
most british aristocracy/old world money in america was in s...
Buff trailer park
  07/21/17
That's how they explain southern accents not northern ones
Mint old irish cottage elastic band
  07/21/17
Boston and charleston both started with the same accent tryi...
sienna blathering crackhouse
  07/21/17
WTF
Heady Locus
  07/21/17
I always heard that in the 18th century most people speaking...
Lascivious mauve field
  07/21/17
that is fucking bizarre
Crusty 180 Volcanic Crater
  07/21/17
It's crazy. They also started adding "u" to words ...
Dashing factory reset button gas station
  07/21/17
You can pwn any shitbrit by pointing out their intrusive R u...
Tantric range
  07/21/17
https://youtu.be/M7g6pw_0W1U
trip stage
  07/21/17
...
Dashing factory reset button gas station
  07/21/17
HO LEE FUK
razzmatazz fuchsia ticket booth
  07/21/17
they also reversed Ls and Rs like ching chong chang peoples.
bateful pit
  07/21/17
Fun fact: American Sign Language and British Sign Language a...
Bearded Locale
  07/21/17
whaaaat
out-of-control rough-skinned skinny woman
  07/21/17


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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:23 PM
Author: Crusty 180 Volcanic Crater

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: self-absorbed claret coffee pot

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33823846)



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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:39 PM
Author: Bright aphrodisiac dilemma

That really is mind blowing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33823912)



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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:39 PM
Author: Buff trailer park



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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:42 PM
Author: Flickering place of business location

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: Buff trailer park

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: Mint old irish cottage elastic band

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: sienna blathering crackhouse

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: Heady Locus

WTF

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33823961)



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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:47 PM
Author: Lascivious mauve field

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: Crusty 180 Volcanic Crater

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: Dashing factory reset button gas station

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: Tantric range

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: trip stage

https://youtu.be/M7g6pw_0W1U

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33824044)



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Date: July 21st, 2017 1:02 PM
Author: Dashing factory reset button gas station



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33824063)



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Date: July 21st, 2017 2:30 PM
Author: razzmatazz fuchsia ticket booth

HO LEE FUK

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33824728)



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Date: July 21st, 2017 2:44 PM
Author: bateful pit

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: Bearded Locale

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: out-of-control rough-skinned skinny woman

whaaaat

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