(November 30, 2019 at 8:38 am)ThinkingIsThinking Wrote:(November 30, 2019 at 8:36 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Yeah, NO Brits talk like that. But USians tend to think of either RP or Cockney (sometimes Mayfair) when they think 'British accent'.
Boru
Well, the reason I said '99.9%' instead of '100%' is that I was using the remaining 0.1% to refer to the upper-class Brits that the woman in the video is doing a bad impression of.
But they don't speak like her. What you're saying is that 0.1% of Brits speak like her, and that's simply not true, any more than people from East London sound like Dick van Dyke.
Boru
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