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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...
Big gas station
  07/21/17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9nBGqOh4FQ
internet-worthy den
  07/21/17
That really is mind blowing
Fiercely-loyal Adventurous Sex Offender Liquid Oxygen
  07/21/17
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Razzle lay
  07/21/17
explain the northeast accent
Saffron half-breed pisswyrm
  07/21/17
most british aristocracy/old world money in america was in s...
Razzle lay
  07/21/17
That's how they explain southern accents not northern ones
Mentally Impaired House-broken Roommate Parlour
  07/21/17
Boston and charleston both started with the same accent tryi...
Lascivious School Cafeteria Idea He Suggested
  07/21/17
WTF
boyish white plaza wrinkle
  07/21/17
I always heard that in the 18th century most people speaking...
fluffy headpube
  07/21/17
that is fucking bizarre
Big gas station
  07/21/17
It's crazy. They also started adding "u" to words ...
Magenta Fighting Indian Lodge Trust Fund
  07/21/17
You can pwn any shitbrit by pointing out their intrusive R u...
Spruce pontificating azn
  07/21/17
https://youtu.be/M7g6pw_0W1U
Greedy Awkward Home
  07/21/17
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Magenta Fighting Indian Lodge Trust Fund
  07/21/17
HO LEE FUK
multi-colored sepia principal's office
  07/21/17
they also reversed Ls and Rs like ching chong chang peoples.
Bisexual buck-toothed associate brunch
  07/21/17
Fun fact: American Sign Language and British Sign Language a...
bistre self-absorbed fortuitous meteor base
  07/21/17
whaaaat
Primrose step-uncle's house
  07/21/17


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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:23 PM
Author: Big gas station

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: internet-worthy den

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: Fiercely-loyal Adventurous Sex Offender Liquid Oxygen

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: Razzle lay



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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:42 PM
Author: Saffron half-breed pisswyrm

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: Razzle lay

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: Mentally Impaired House-broken Roommate Parlour

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: Lascivious School Cafeteria Idea He Suggested

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: boyish white plaza wrinkle

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: fluffy headpube

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: Big gas station

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: Magenta Fighting Indian Lodge Trust Fund

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: Spruce pontificating azn

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: Greedy Awkward Home

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: Magenta Fighting Indian Lodge Trust Fund



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Date: July 21st, 2017 2:30 PM
Author: multi-colored sepia principal's office

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: Bisexual buck-toothed associate brunch

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: bistre self-absorbed fortuitous meteor base

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: Primrose step-uncle's house

whaaaat

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