• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Oh that’s interesting. Because we all think of the British accent as code for colonial period speech on TV shows.

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      5 months ago

      I was watching a video about that the other day, turns out the generic American accent is probably closer to the English accent of the time than ours is.