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Re:Everyone Has an Accent by hug on Monday July 16, 2018 @08:39PM (#17546390)
Not "Old English", but the British English accent prevalent around the time of the founding of the United States.

Old English is ~500AD, Beowulf, and a completely different language to anything ever spoken in the United States.

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Re:Everyone Has an Accent by ethn on Monday July 16, 2018 @10:32PM (#17546856)
Correct, sorry for any confusion.
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