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English History Forum:
What?
Posted by: benjclark () on 29 Sep 2003 at 4:03:42 PM
In-Reply-To: English Accent posted by Andy on 11:44:34 AM 28 Mar 2003
Uh, can we have a reference? Fascinating if true, but it does sound a bit sketchy.: Lol! Yeah right!
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: : In the late 1700's, the royal family decided that certain letters and sounds in the language sounded ugly, so they changed the pronunciation. The colonies, in one of their first acts of rebellion, refused to change how they talked.
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