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Mind blown: British people used to speak like Americans, not vice versa
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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:23 PM Author: dashing alpha 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. |
Date: July 21st, 2017 12:32 PM Author: pungent passionate house persian 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: high-end saffron multi-billionaire 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: Heady property (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33823914) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:42 PM Author: Cracking Potus Stage 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: Heady property 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: Comical Coffee Pot Kitchen 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: thriller address black woman 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: brindle round eye parlor 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: Bossy yarmulke 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: dashing alpha 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: federal cream location filthpig 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. |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:55 PM Author: Mint Swashbuckling Space 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: useless library travel guidebook 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: federal cream location filthpig (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: concupiscible pit 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: Bull headed dun electric furnace 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: Sooty galvanic faggotry garrison 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: Laughsome drab market toilet seat whaaaat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33825121) |