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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (20 children)

American English is closer to what English used to sound like than modern British English.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Really? I thought this was only the case with Quebecois and French

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yup, really. Annoying when you see comments about how Americans don't speak proper English. The Brits are the ones who changed how it was spoken the most!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

“French” Canadian got off lightly on this on then?

😂🙄

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