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"How do you pronounce Mary/merry/marry?" (media.piefed.world)
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[–] -3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Unpopular opinion 1: the us should invite some Brits and learn to speak regular English again.

Unpopular opinion 2: the us should split up and adopt their local version of English as their official language.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You think English in the UK hasn't evolved in the last few hundred years?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Not to mention that despite the impact of TV and radio, UK accents are wildly variant and it's pretty much a guarantee that there'll be corners that don't make distinctions between at least two of these words.

    There's no such thing as "regular English" in the UK; the Thames Estuary accent is prescriptivism, not regularity.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    The US has one of the oldest living dialects of English. Linguists argue whether Appalachian English is a mostly preserved dialect of 16th century Elizabethan English or an unusually conservative dialect of 18th century Colonial English.

    Y'ont folks ta git back ta talkin right have em talk hillbilly.

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