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Mind blown: British people used to speak like Americans, not vice versa

https://www.livescience.com/33652-americans-brits-accents.ht...
swollen charcoal step-uncle's house
  07/21/17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9nBGqOh4FQ
lake temple half-breed
  07/21/17
That really is mind blowing
Aphrodisiac Abnormal School Cafeteria
  07/21/17
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heady balding macaca
  07/21/17
explain the northeast accent
Fuchsia Regret
  07/21/17
most british aristocracy/old world money in america was in s...
heady balding macaca
  07/21/17
That's how they explain southern accents not northern ones
Doobsian Haunted Graveyard Police Squad
  07/21/17
Boston and charleston both started with the same accent tryi...
Massive marketing idea old irish cottage
  07/21/17
WTF
shimmering brethren
  07/21/17
I always heard that in the 18th century most people speaking...
navy sound barrier meetinghouse
  07/21/17
that is fucking bizarre
swollen charcoal step-uncle's house
  07/21/17
It's crazy. They also started adding "u" to words ...
charismatic ratface range
  07/21/17
You can pwn any shitbrit by pointing out their intrusive R u...
Diverse Misunderstood Fat Ankles Mental Disorder
  07/21/17
https://youtu.be/M7g6pw_0W1U
contagious cowardly church building
  07/21/17
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charismatic ratface range
  07/21/17
HO LEE FUK
gay sinister senate
  07/21/17
they also reversed Ls and Rs like ching chong chang peoples.
big-titted shrine
  07/21/17
Fun fact: American Sign Language and British Sign Language a...
Ocher fanboi idea he suggested
  07/21/17
whaaaat
Swashbuckling crackhouse
  07/21/17


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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:23 PM
Author: swollen charcoal step-uncle's house

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33823776)



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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:32 PM
Author: lake temple half-breed

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: Aphrodisiac Abnormal School Cafeteria

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: heady balding macaca



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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:42 PM
Author: Fuchsia Regret

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: heady balding macaca

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: Doobsian Haunted Graveyard Police Squad

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: Massive marketing idea old irish cottage

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: shimmering brethren

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: navy sound barrier meetinghouse

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: swollen charcoal step-uncle's house

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: charismatic ratface range

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33824018)



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Date: July 21st, 2017 12:55 PM
Author: Diverse Misunderstood Fat Ankles Mental Disorder

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: contagious cowardly church building

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: charismatic ratface range



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Date: July 21st, 2017 2:30 PM
Author: gay sinister senate

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: big-titted shrine

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: Ocher fanboi idea he suggested

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: Swashbuckling crackhouse

whaaaat

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3681055&forum_id=2#33825121)