English History Forum:
English Accent
Posted by: Miwako (Miwako_Nagase@ThisIsToPreventSpam-527-RemoveThis.hotmail.com) on 5 Mar 2003 at 9:25:24 AM
In-Reply-To: Accents posted by anonymous on 6:27:35 PM 25 Aug 2002
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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