• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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    172 years ago

    Meanwhile the Americans have the British names but pronounce it completely different because of the fucking bostoners

    • @[email protected]
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      82 years ago

      Also because the British have proven themselves incapable of taking care of the language, as proven every day by cockneys.

      • XIIIesq
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        22 years ago

        The whole point of cockney is that you can tell who is and isn’t a local.

        • Echo Dot
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          22 years ago

          And by local they mean on the street by street level.

    • @[email protected]
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      202 years ago

      Don’t place the blame on us. The British have changed their dialect like twelve times since we were their colony.

    • Echo Dot
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      22 years ago

      Burning, ham

      Yet they can pronounce Halifax just fine.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      And still closer to how it’s spelled than seven centuries of people mumbling it impatiently.

      You wanna know why every English town name has special arbitrary pronunciation? Amogus.