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what is not now considerd a proper British accent is called Received Pronunciation random thoughts Send a noteboard - 31/07/2015 03:11:36 PM

In the mid to late 1800s the British changed the way the spoke their language. In their never ending goal to stratify their society and separate the lower class from the betters British schools began teaching students to speak differently for the commoners. The way most Brits would have sounded in 1800 is much closer to how a kid form Virginia would speak than how a kid from London would speak.

And sorry including the dialect of non-native English speaker Really isn't valid. While some of the speak English great many speak a very broken English and use none standard structure. According to the arbitrator of all debated on the internet only about 5-8 percent of India are considered fluent in English so if I was to give you them you still are wrong.

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Y'all, you guys, yous guys, or hey you all? - 25/07/2015 05:38:44 PM 1064 Views
Y'all may be the American South's greatest gift to the English language. - 27/07/2015 12:14:47 AM 704 Views
*whistles innocently* - 27/07/2015 04:17:43 AM 842 Views
"Hey, you guys!" is only correct if you are Rita Moreno - 27/07/2015 04:15:07 AM 668 Views
Perhaps, but you're also wrong. - 27/07/2015 04:45:48 AM 909 Views
Both spellings are "correct" to the extent EITHER are. - 27/07/2015 05:04:43 AM 891 Views
Funny.... - 29/07/2015 12:13:35 AM 763 Views
It is also correct if you are Sloth... on a pirate ship... *NM* - 29/07/2015 07:09:56 PM 563 Views
I will defer to you and Jeordam on that one - 29/07/2015 07:45:31 PM 743 Views
well since language is a democracy and the souther dialetic is the largest Y'all wins - 27/07/2015 02:07:22 PM 825 Views
The Southern dialect is the largest by what metric? - 27/07/2015 06:26:20 PM 817 Views
It also the accent most similar to what Victorian brits would have spoken - 27/07/2015 07:45:09 PM 743 Views
Whoa, now: The PIEDMONT accent may be closest to Received Pronunciation, but is not the whole South - 28/07/2015 12:37:56 AM 820 Views
I don't make the catagories but all the southern accents tend to be close *NM* - 28/07/2015 02:12:15 PM 510 Views
Except, as you noted, Virginias accent is closer to Englands (and New Englands, and South Africas) - 28/07/2015 11:00:46 PM 786 Views
that is not what I said - 29/07/2015 02:14:49 PM 796 Views
Sorry, I credited you w/knowing the Deep South, Appalachia and TX sound nothing like any UK accents - 29/07/2015 07:42:21 PM 747 Views
read slower and then read again until you understand what I said - 29/07/2015 08:14:19 PM 1023 Views
"The people in the American South were Victorian Brits"?! I must have read that too fast - 29/07/2015 10:39:08 PM 754 Views
Erm. Not really sure what you're saying here... - 29/07/2015 11:35:26 PM 713 Views
Would "UK English" have been better? - 30/07/2015 10:47:53 PM 755 Views
Not really. - 31/07/2015 07:30:41 AM 706 Views
David Crystal estimates proficient non-natives outnumber native English speakers 3:1 - 10/08/2015 02:45:58 AM 687 Views
Interesting stuff. - 10/08/2015 07:12:26 PM 784 Views
what is not now considerd a proper British accent is called Received Pronunciation - 31/07/2015 03:11:36 PM 987 Views
Who says "yous guys"? Seriously? - 27/07/2015 07:56:28 PM 742 Views
B-movie mobsters - 28/07/2015 12:40:04 AM 908 Views
They said it when I lived in Chicago - 28/07/2015 02:10:27 PM 724 Views
Scots. - 28/07/2015 02:42:28 PM 767 Views
I have heard it a couple of times. - 28/07/2015 03:13:20 PM 715 Views
Isn't fake culture almos the defintion of hipster? *NM* - 28/07/2015 05:18:53 PM 372 Views
Depends, are trying to sound cool, like a douche, or Joe Pesci? *NM* - 29/07/2015 07:12:28 PM 574 Views
The distinction between the first two is negligible - 29/07/2015 07:52:50 PM 760 Views

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