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Pomeroy
Apr 20, 2020

Some Guy TT posted:

is it true that contemporary american accents are actually closer to what english people sounded like in the eighteenth century than actual english people do today because theyre all copying some goofy rear end nineteenth century fad we never bothered with

I do recall reading an article a while back, that certain Appalachian pronunciations were closer to Elizabethan pronunciations than anything else.

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