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Anonymous ID:bWlfIMsX Thu 28 Sep 2017 19:25:59 No.2322357 View View Reply Original Report

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What language did Brits speak before they spoke English? I'm trying to put a finger on where there stupid accent came from after we beat them in the Revolutionary War.

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Anonymous ID:4iBB+r+W Thu 28 Sep 2017 19:26:37 No.2322368 Report

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THIS IS WHY I HIDE ALL AMERICAN THREADS XD

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!Gore/5oae2 ID:YGhi4TWf Thu 28 Sep 2017 19:27:12 No.2322380 Report

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Kek this fucking turd.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:p/C7NAl6 Thu 28 Sep 2017 19:27:16 No.2322382 Report

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>>2322357
Olde English transition to modern English

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:BzRDKDeD Thu 28 Sep 2017 19:28:16 No.2322391 Report

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>>2322357
Old English, Scots, Scots and Irish Gaelic, some welsh shit and I think wessex had a language

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:omyOgiPM Thu 28 Sep 2017 19:28:18 No.2322392 Report

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>>2322357
Latin or some shit
French if you can count that

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:jT11MsvS Thu 28 Sep 2017 20:34:04 No.2323064 Report

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>>2322357
Began with Old High Germanic, Old Norse
Added French when Will invaded (therefore romance influence)
"Added" Gaelic
This became Old English
That simplified over time to Modern English

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:XbXjKtWI Thu 28 Sep 2017 21:33:33 No.2323529 Report

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>>2322357
Technically, the American accent is the old British accent, and the current British accent formed from everyone expecting us to act posh.

Anonymous

Anonymous ID:uxPt21AB Thu 28 Sep 2017 22:00:20 No.2323752 Report

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>>2322357
wtf is a "british accent". there are so many completely different accents accross this country

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