Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc...
by cjrp on Monday May 15, 2023 @12:21PM
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“Bottle of water” is one that my French colleague used to make fun of. Ends up something like “boh-ooh a wa-uh”.
Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc...
by amiga386 on Monday May 15, 2023 @12:37PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKRuG4oIu_o
"The water in Maiorca doesn't taste like what it ought to"
"THE WARTER IN MAJORKER DUNT TASTE LOIK WORRIT ORTER"
As a North American, I find it one of the harder accents to understand. It has undergone a lot of interesting sound changes in recent decades, not shared by many other dialects. Likely a result of dialect flattening from 20th century population movements. "Football" -> [ˈfʊʔbɔo] (sounds like "fuh-baoh" to me) or "bottle" -> ['bɒʔo] {"bah-oh"?) or "Tuesday" -> [tʃuːz.deɪ] ("choose day").
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estuary_English