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Me.Originally posted by Dave Lenton:
There's no real "correct" English accent. After all, who is it who can be the authority of what is correct?
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of the idea. John Ciardi
Piscis Babelis est parvus, flavus, et hiridicus, et est probabiliter insolitissima raritas in toto mundo.
It's plausible. That's what happened with Iceland. They sound more like the Danes, Swedes and Norwegians of a thousand years ago than than do the Danes, Swedes and Norwegians today.Originally posted by Jason Menard:
I don't know if there's any truth to it and I certainly can't back it up, but I once heard somewhere that the English spoken in New England today is closer to the English that was spoken in the 1600's-1700's in Great Britain than that which is spoken in Great Britain today. In other words, the suggestion was that the British accent has changed more over time than the American accent has.