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Re: It's my b-b-b-b-birthday
Posted By: wintermute, on host 195.153.64.90
Date: Thursday, August 16, 2001, at 04:49:41
In Reply To: Re: It's my b-b-b-b-birthday posted by Howard on Thursday, August 16, 2001, at 04:40:22:

> and the accent is English, mixed with a bit of Scouse for seasoning:)
> >
> > Dix"you have never heard my rendition of YMCA"ie
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> I still think "Dixie" has a southern ring to it.
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> There is a theory that the English don't have an accent. It's their language and the way they speak it is correct. So I suppose it's the rest of us who have an accent.
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> Well, I'll tell y'all one thang, I don't reckon I cotton to that theory.
> How"in Georgia"ard

If people speak "Queen's English" or "BBC English", I suppose that would be valid. But almost everyone in England has some form of accent (mine is of Home Counties and South London with a trace of Geordie), and some of these have less in common with "standard" English than US English does.

winter"Just waffling. Ignore me"mute

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