• Zip2
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      5 months ago

      I have heard that US English is much closer to the English of the 1600s, whereas ours evolved under the influence of French, and I guess some things dropped out of common usage. Gotten being one of them, posssibly until the invention of YouTube sped up globalisation.

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        5 months ago

        Oh that’s interesting. Because we all think of the British accent as code for colonial period speech on TV shows.

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          I was watching a video about that the other day, turns out the generic American accent is probably closer to the English accent of the time than ours is.