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To: day10

Well, the Brits still speak this odd minority dialect of the English language. It’s a fact.


20 posted on 08/14/2018 10:20:49 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: DesertRhino

Noticed years ago when our only TV available to watch in English were BBC 1 and BBC 2 that even well educated people, who probably studied them for years, refuse to pronounce foreign words and names as spoken in the original tongues. Everything is adapted to an English inflection and style of pronunciation. Double “LL” in Spanish? Plain “ell” instead of “yy”. But they become huffy when anyone pronounces English words differently than they do.


25 posted on 08/14/2018 10:58:25 AM PDT by katana (We're all part of a long episode of "The Terrific Mr. Trump")
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