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Bosh!
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What? Everyone speaks English, don't they..?
Well known fact. 
Wrong... They speak *American*... none of that snotty-posh tea-and-crumpets "Oh, bother" *English* stuff... and if they don't, then they should. 
Piffle!
Wot Rot!
Odd's Bodkin!
Um.... yeah.
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Re: Something from Portugal...
Sadly most British now speak American rather than English. 
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5/10/03, 14:10
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Re: Something from Portugal...
... and if they dont speak American?
Then of course they use the Australian?
Where every sentence goes up at the end?
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Fistros Diodenalers: sinners of the prairie
...It can get worse, much worse...
just think of spanglish
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Re: Something from Portugal...
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Sadly most British now speak American rather than English.
Oi! Well, I'm chuffed...All those posh English gents, finally learning to speak like a proper American? You don't bloody well say...!
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Re: Something from Portugal...
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Sadly most British now speak American rather than English.
Mind you,that been said apart from in the old movies and newsreels.I don't think many British ever actually spoke proper English anyway.The old Anglo Saxon (swear)words had been around for century's.And before the advent of cinema and TV regional dialects would have been far more pronounced.
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Re: Something from Portugal...
Which leads one to ask "where does American English come from? And did Shakespeare speak it?"
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N'Heures Souris Rames
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...It can get worse, much worse...
just think of spanglish
Parlez vous Franglais..?
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Letters from America
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Which leads one to ask "where does American English come from? And did Shakespeare speak it?"
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.......much as I hate to admit it, Language experts do suggest that 'American English' spelling [favor, color, and other such cretinous ridiculousnesses] is more likely to have been pre-English.
So..... we spoke American, packed it off miles away, evolved a better version, and now have American people dictating how many '0's in a billion?! 
Booo!
Hiss!
SULPHUR! FOETUS! COLOUR! PAVEMENT! THEATRE! 
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