To: sparklite2
Does it explain Irish and Russian too?
This is bunk. Split a population for a generation or two and each group will then think the other groups have an accent.
There are plenty of accents within UK already, and modern Englishmen probably sound nothing like they did 200 years ago.
13 posted on
10/29/2015 1:17:03 PM PDT by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: BitWielder1
Heh .. Put an Aussie, a Cockney, a New Yorker, a Redneck, a Nigerian, and a Valley Girl in the same room. See how well they understand each other.
Technically, they all speak English
28 posted on
10/29/2015 2:16:40 PM PDT by
NorthMountain
("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
To: BitWielder1
The accent of the original pronunciation Shakespeare movement sounds like pirates.
33 posted on
10/29/2015 2:29:05 PM PDT by
MUDDOG
To: BitWielder1
modern Englishmen probably sound nothing like they did 200 years ago. Correct. If you want to hear what they sounded like 200 years, go to Tangier Island, Virginia.
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