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Re: It's my b-b-b-b-birthday
Posted By: Dixie, on host 194.6.84.100
Date: Thursday, August 16, 2001, at 05:18:25
In Reply To: Re: It's my b-b-b-b-birthday posted by wintermute on Thursday, August 16, 2001, at 04:49:41:

> > and the accent is English, mixed with a bit of Scouse for seasoning:)
> > >
> > > Dix"you have never heard my rendition of YMCA"ie
> >
> > I still think "Dixie" has a southern ring to it.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
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> winter"Just waffling. Ignore me"mute


Well I've been living a few miles north of the Watford Gap for the past year and apparently I've started to sound more Scouse as the year has gone on. go figure:)
Dix"even more Scouse now"ie