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Mike's avatar

This very week I had a, um, discussion with someone online (a Brit, of course) who dismissed American English ("not really English") and claimed authority by saying "we [the Brits] INVENTED English". Uh-huh. Too bad I didn't have this to send to that person.

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Francis Turner's avatar

The broad A thing - northern English tends to use the short version for some words anyway. For example Bath is short "oop North" in my experience.

Somewhere there's a set of recordings of people saying the lords prayer in various British dialects in the early/mid 20th century. The vowels in "Our Father" alone were amazingly varied.

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