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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: navy theatre 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: offensive prole 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: Shaky Alcoholic House 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: transparent filthpig (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: Peach histrionic stag film round eye 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: transparent filthpig 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: 180 boistinker 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: Brass Rambunctious Milk 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: very tactful trust fund heaven 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: chocolate self-absorbed church building old irish cottage 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: navy theatre 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: pearly lascivious pit 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: mahogany splenetic plaza 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: self-centered aphrodisiac station 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: pearly lascivious pit (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: metal native 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: marvelous dog poop corner 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: beady-eyed mustard shitlib address 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: diverse immigrant blood rage whaaaat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33825121) |