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Old 06-08-2024, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive View Post
Lol.

Sir Winston Churchill, I think it was, once described America and the UK as "two peoples divided by a common language". Some truth in that.

Funny how stereotypes work...For a lot of Americans, whenever they hear a British accent, they just assume that the speaker is intelligent. Same thing works in reverse with southern accents: we Americans, from the North anyway, tend to label speakers with southern accents as rubes. The dangers of stereotyping, I guess.

But that brings up the question: what do our British friends think when they hear an American accent? I've often wondered about that.
Which "American accent"? Depending on which part of the country you come from, it varies widely. Hell, NYC has 4-5 different accents, alone!
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