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    AnemoneRachel Vorona Cote
    7/04/16 4:48pm

    I read somewhere that experts say that back in the old days the British spoke like Americans, and it’s the Brits whose accents have changed. I have no idea how anyone would actually know this (something to do with RP?), but interesting if it’s true.

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      BuddahbeanMisplacedHerBurnerKeyAnemone
      7/04/16 4:51pm

      Not sure. I heard that the southern accent was the British, but slowed down. I think there was a huge coffee table book called The History of English that explained how the English language and dialects evolved over the past 1000 years or so. Used to be at my first boyfriend’s mom’s house so I have a faint memory of pouring over it. Going to see if it’s still in print.

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      I thought turkeys could flyAnemone
      7/04/16 4:59pm

      I heard this too, and that Shakespeare actually sounds better because of it.

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    Label other endRachel Vorona Cote
    7/04/16 4:58pm

    I mean we could sound like Australians so that's a plus...

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      PumpkinSpiesLabel other end
      7/04/16 5:08pm

      It’s like a Southern British accent.

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      Hank ScorpioPumpkinSpies
      7/04/16 5:19pm

      I live in the South and work with an Aussie who’s lived here for a long time. His accent is bizarre.

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    imaginaryfriendRachel Vorona Cote
    7/04/16 6:32pm

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      Jan74imaginaryfriend
      7/04/16 7:28pm

      I don’t know what Lie-Betty is, so I am gonna have to go with Tranny. It is a slur, but at least it is an actual word.

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      dr. woodleJan74
      7/04/16 7:33pm

      I think it’s supposed to be tyranny. Maybe you knew that.

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    PumpkinSpiesRachel Vorona Cote
    7/04/16 5:13pm

    Sure, but for every posh London accent of tv and film (and presumably real life) you’ve got the gargled Manchester utterances of a Gallagher brother.

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      Martini of Male Tears for BreakfastPumpkinSpies
      7/04/16 5:19pm

      ALREET OUR KID?!? - Your friendly resident Manc

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    Ossetia von AzerbaijanRachel Vorona Cote
    7/04/16 5:38pm

    I love John Oliver and all, but America’s 240th is taking a back seat this year when it’s this girl’s (ahem, woman’s) 18th...

    Happy birthday, Malia! Please be friends with me and we can talk shit about the tricks who talked shit about your dad (and whom you laughed straight into the gutter where they belong).

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      imaginaryfriendOssetia von Azerbaijan
      7/04/16 6:51pm

      happy b-day, 1st daughter (and u know she doesn’t let Sasha forget that).

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    CliffordGLAVIN!Rachel Vorona Cote
    7/04/16 5:16pm

    If those insufferable limey pricks didn’t want people speaking their precious language incorrectly, then they shouldn’t have spent hundreds of years spreading it by the sword to every corner of the globe.

    Signed,

    A person from “Canader”

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      CliffordGLAVIN!CliffordGLAVIN!
      7/04/16 5:18pm

      [colonizes entire continent, teaches them Spanish, waits a few hundred years]

      Hmm... they’re not lisping their letter ‘S’es. That bothers me.

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    cuntybawsRachel Vorona Cote
    7/04/16 4:50pm

    I won’t be happy until we all speak like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.

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      Maxine Floeffler, Super Delegatecuntybaws
      7/04/16 5:00pm

      Oh, I agree, me ole bamboo!

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    Stig-a-saw-us wrecks sez Bernie is wrong on nuclear power.Rachel Vorona Cote
    7/04/16 7:37pm
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      Not2LuckyRachel Vorona Cote
      7/04/16 7:13pm

      Back in the late 80's I was backpacking across Europe with a friend and we ended up in Ireland on July 4th. Some minor city, like Kilarny or Mallow.. Don’t remember.. but we decided that since it was the 4th and we were 19 we would go to the pub and have a drink before hitchhiking to Dublin. We found a back-ass pub near our hostel, and went in at 10:30 in the morning (and it was full.. reinforcing all our Irish stereotypes), so my friend and I get pints and we say... a but loud for the local crowd I guess... Happy 4th of July.... and have a drink... and the bartender sneers at us and says “And yesterday was the 3rd, and tomorrow is the 5th so what’s the big deal”... and I said to him, looking him in his eye “This is the day we celebrate our independence.., this is the day we kicked the British out of OUR country...”..... We drank, for free, at that pub until dinnertime when some guy who was there before we came gave us a ride to Dublin in a car with 4 wheels but only 10 lug nuts... but that is a story for another time.

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        snugbugNot2Lucky
        7/04/16 8:43pm

        Ooh, burn! =)

        In general I’ve found that the Irish (in the Republic) love America and Americans, you know how they say in many Irish homes during the ‘60s and ‘70s and ‘80s hung a photo of JFK next to a photo of the pope..

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        Akat101Not2Lucky
        7/04/16 10:56pm

        This is a fantastic story.

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      GeneRachel Vorona Cote
      7/04/16 5:23pm

      There's a massive error in his theory. If we had stayed with the crown, wouldn't we more likely sound like Canadians?

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        Kimchip90Gene
        7/04/16 6:09pm

        Maybe Canadians sound like Canadians because of the US?

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        chocolatechipcookiesforbreakfastGene
        7/04/16 6:46pm

        To my ears Canadian accent sounds like the Midwest accent.

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