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• SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re another that doesn’t understand “Received Pronunciation”, aren’t you?

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  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Received from the great founders of England: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Lincoln, and Lord Martin Luther King Sr I.

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    • SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t get the joke sorry.

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      • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I just figured, if Old English came from America, then those great figures must be from whom we Receive Pronunciation.

        Or are We not amused at the fantastical American origins of true English?

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