Isn’t English itself a pidgin?
‘Th’ is already replaced with a ‘v’ in parts of England.
“Don’t bovver me, mate.”
I always wondered by Thames is pronounced “Tims”
“Look here, Moneypenny... precisely how many have these ‘linguists’ predicted a change in the English language - correctly - in the past?”
Well, thufferin’ thuccotash...
If someone says “wiff” instead of “with,” it still sounds ignorant .
That’s
thilly
If that sound disappears, how will lispers lisp?
Poor Lindsey!
‘Th’ is racist.
Dat da FAKD.
The ‘th’ sounds, there are two of them, are rare in the world’s languages. Most adult foreigners are never able to master them.
So Brits are going to start talking like New Yorkers? Irish immigrants couldn’t pronounce the ‘th’ which is why New Yorkers used to say ‘turty-turd-and-turd” rather than thirty third and third. But that changed over the years and it’s rare to hear that accent anymore.
Hasn’t the ‘d’ and ‘th’ already disappeared in ‘Murcan ghettos?
ie: ‘Dindu Nuffin!’
And this from multi-generational ‘Murcans. (Granted, I’m talking about feral hoodrats, but I guess that is equivalent to the immigrants in London.)
The name ‘Anthony’ is pronounced ‘Antony’ in Britain. But there is still a ‘th’ sound in some words with ‘th’.
No more lithping?
Girlie-Boys like 0bama lisp “S” already.
Matter of fact one guy I know told me how he used to do that as a kid and rather than dismiss it as just growing pains and normal childhood development like our forefathers did a lot of these sort of things, they claimed it was a symptom of mental illness and autism.
He didn't know it was wrong because it sounded almost alike. Well his teacher scolded him and threatened to have him left back or sent to a special school in front of the whole class and his mother beat him. He was told by his teacher and mother that he'd be in big trouble if he ever did it again and to drive it home, his mother, an abusive psychopath and a liberal Beat him so hard he bled.
He did stop doing it but certainly this wasn't the way to go. Most people including children do this. Mostly public school children. So rather than blame the school and the mother for doing a bad job in teaching them that which they were never taught they blamed junior. And they drove it home with abuse. All over the most simple and trivial of things.
I hate liberals. They're hypocrites and they're nasty. I mean for God's sake he's a child and he wasn't the only one who did that.
The "th" of "thin" is a different sound than the "th" of "the."
I don't think English-speakers in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are going to change the way they speak because of immigrants in SE England having a hard time with pronouncing English properly.
I can see the guttural throat growl of the Islamic languages taking its place.
Malarky. We will always have our shibboleths...