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Topic	lol @ how British people pronounce tortoise
DrizztLink 12/31/21 6:24:45 PM #100:	Criminalt posted... Regional American accents during the colonial period echoed the distinctive British accents of the settlers' regions of origin: East Anglia/Massachusetts, West Country/Virginia, North Midlands/Delaware Valley, northern British borderlands/Appalachian backcountry. No single American accent, and no single British, "Shakespearean" accent even at the time. Surely the American accent has been far more susceptible to change over the centuries, thanks to demographic changes wrought by hugely diverse inflows of migrants and greater mobility across a vast continent? For fuck's sake. That's why it says "super simplistically." --- http://guidesmedia.ign.com/guides/9846/images/slowpoke.gif https://i.imgur.com/M8h2ATe.png https://i.imgur.com/6ezFwG1.png <cite>DrizztLink posted [p:961365852] in lol @ how ... [t:79832471]...</cite> <quote>Criminalt posted... </cite> <quote>Regional American accents during the colonial period echoed the distinctive British accents of the settlers' regions of origin: East Anglia/Massachusetts, West Country/Virginia, North Midlands/Delaware Valley, northern British borderlands/Appalachian backcountry. No single American accent, and no single British, "Shakespearean" accent even at the time. Surely the American accent has been far more susceptible to change over the centuries, thanks to demographic changes wrought by hugely diverse inflows of migrants and greater mobility across a vast continent?</quote>For fuck's sake. That's why it says "super simplistically." --- http://guidesmedia.ign.com/guides/9846/images/slowpoke.gif https://i.imgur.com/M8h2ATe.png https://i.imgur.com/6ezFwG1.png</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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