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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: garnet fortuitous meteor 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: vengeful quadroon crackhouse 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: soul-stirring mad cow disease 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: Tan pit (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: Charismatic chrome nursing home 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: Tan pit 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: big genital piercing nibblets 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: hideous national pervert 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: Submissive Odious Affirmative Action Plaza 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: Fragrant effete azn shitlib 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: garnet fortuitous meteor 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: curious cruise ship persian 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: appetizing slate fanboi 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: violet sneaky criminal 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: curious cruise ship persian (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: titillating puce twinkling uncleanness faggotry 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: Lemon French Brethren Mental Disorder 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: 180 gas station boiling water 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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