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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 1328 Views
Y'all may be the American South's greatest gift to the English language. - 27/07/2015 12:14:47 AM 963 Views
*whistles innocently* - 27/07/2015 04:17:43 AM 1102 Views
"Hey, you guys!" is only correct if you are Rita Moreno - 27/07/2015 04:15:07 AM 936 Views
Perhaps, but you're also wrong. - 27/07/2015 04:45:48 AM 1181 Views
Both spellings are "correct" to the extent EITHER are. - 27/07/2015 05:04:43 AM 1144 Views
Funny.... - 29/07/2015 12:13:35 AM 1012 Views
It is also correct if you are Sloth... on a pirate ship... *NM* - 29/07/2015 07:09:56 PM 757 Views
I will defer to you and Jeordam on that one - 29/07/2015 07:45:31 PM 1028 Views
well since language is a democracy and the souther dialetic is the largest Y'all wins - 27/07/2015 02:07:22 PM 1088 Views
The Southern dialect is the largest by what metric? - 27/07/2015 06:26:20 PM 1075 Views
It also the accent most similar to what Victorian brits would have spoken - 27/07/2015 07:45:09 PM 1016 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 1106 Views
I don't make the catagories but all the southern accents tend to be close *NM* - 28/07/2015 02:12:15 PM 709 Views
Except, as you noted, Virginias accent is closer to Englands (and New Englands, and South Africas) - 28/07/2015 11:00:46 PM 1057 Views
that is not what I said - 29/07/2015 02:14:49 PM 1065 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 1068 Views
read slower and then read again until you understand what I said - 29/07/2015 08:14:19 PM 1313 Views
"The people in the American South were Victorian Brits"?! I must have read that too fast - 29/07/2015 10:39:08 PM 1020 Views
Erm. Not really sure what you're saying here... - 29/07/2015 11:35:26 PM 1009 Views
Would "UK English" have been better? - 30/07/2015 10:47:53 PM 1052 Views
Not really. - 31/07/2015 07:30:41 AM 1037 Views
David Crystal estimates proficient non-natives outnumber native English speakers 3:1 - 10/08/2015 02:45:58 AM 1006 Views
Interesting stuff. - 10/08/2015 07:12:26 PM 1094 Views
what is not now considerd a proper British accent is called Received Pronunciation - 31/07/2015 03:11:36 PM 1280 Views
Who says "yous guys"? Seriously? - 27/07/2015 07:56:28 PM 1015 Views
B-movie mobsters - 28/07/2015 12:40:04 AM 1188 Views
They said it when I lived in Chicago - 28/07/2015 02:10:27 PM 993 Views
Scots. - 28/07/2015 02:42:28 PM 1019 Views
I have heard it a couple of times. - 28/07/2015 03:13:20 PM 969 Views
Isn't fake culture almos the defintion of hipster? *NM* - 28/07/2015 05:18:53 PM 522 Views
Depends, are trying to sound cool, like a douche, or Joe Pesci? *NM* - 29/07/2015 07:12:28 PM 756 Views
The distinction between the first two is negligible - 29/07/2015 07:52:50 PM 1041 Views

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