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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...
lemon out-of-control milk
  07/21/17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9nBGqOh4FQ
Stubborn turquoise elastic band theater
  07/21/17
That really is mind blowing
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Supple Mauve Principal's Office Son Of Senegal
  07/21/17
explain the northeast accent
Milky zippy stage
  07/21/17
most british aristocracy/old world money in america was in s...
Supple Mauve Principal's Office Son Of Senegal
  07/21/17
That's how they explain southern accents not northern ones
Sepia orchestra pit
  07/21/17
Boston and charleston both started with the same accent tryi...
Vigorous Area
  07/21/17
WTF
Green public bath kitty
  07/21/17
I always heard that in the 18th century most people speaking...
Swollen concupiscible space
  07/21/17
that is fucking bizarre
lemon out-of-control milk
  07/21/17
It's crazy. They also started adding "u" to words ...
ruddy deranged menage
  07/21/17
You can pwn any shitbrit by pointing out their intrusive R u...
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  07/21/17
https://youtu.be/M7g6pw_0W1U
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ruddy deranged menage
  07/21/17
HO LEE FUK
Comical Stage Stain
  07/21/17
they also reversed Ls and Rs like ching chong chang peoples.
histrionic bawdyhouse pozpig
  07/21/17
Fun fact: American Sign Language and British Sign Language a...
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  07/21/17
whaaaat
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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:23 PM
Author: lemon out-of-control milk

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: Stubborn turquoise elastic band theater

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: Vengeful Personal Credit Line Hominid

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: Supple Mauve Principal's Office Son Of Senegal



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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:42 PM
Author: Milky zippy 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: Supple Mauve Principal's Office Son Of Senegal

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: Sepia orchestra pit

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: Vigorous Area

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: Green public bath kitty

WTF

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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:47 PM
Author: Swollen concupiscible space

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: lemon out-of-control milk

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: ruddy deranged menage

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: Honey-headed voyeur

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: big glassy fortuitous meteor hunting ground

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: ruddy deranged menage



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Date: July 21st, 2017 2:30 PM
Author: Comical Stage Stain

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: histrionic bawdyhouse pozpig

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: Chest-beating vibrant pisswyrm dog poop

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: soul-stirring painfully honest selfie tanning salon

whaaaat

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