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Topic	lol @ how British people pronounce tortoise
DrizztLink 12/30/21 5:02:42 PM #69:	Ar0ge posted... Didn't the current English accent develop more recently? Like AFTER America was colonized. I read somewhere that the English spoke very similarly to the American accent back then. dave_is_slick posted... No, America actually has the correct English. It's you guys who changed. I made the same point, it turns out to be true to a degree but far more complicated than that. Like the interplay between the indigenous populations and their language (moose is not an English word), America's "melting pot" muddying the waters, that sort of thing. --- 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:961337310] in lol @ how ... [t:79832471]...</cite> <quote>Ar0ge posted... </cite> <quote>Didn't the current English accent develop more recently? Like AFTER America was colonized. I read somewhere that the English spoke very similarly to the American accent back then.</quote> dave_is_slick posted... </cite> <quote>No, America actually has the correct English. It's you guys who changed.</quote>I made the same point, it turns out to be true to a degree but far more complicated than that. Like the interplay between the indigenous populations and their language (moose is not an English word), America's "melting pot" muddying the waters, that sort of thing. --- 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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