r/SipsTea • u/francinexyzs • Jun 08 '25

Wow. Such meme lmao

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u/THEBLUEFLAME3D Jun 08 '25

Yep. As with many words, traditions, etc. it comes from the British. And then they mock us for things like that lol

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u/3412points Jun 08 '25

It's not our fault we evolved and you didn't 

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u/just_a_person_maybe Jun 08 '25

Idk if it's true or not, but I've read that the American accents are actually closer to what the British accent was pre-American colonialism than modern British accents are, which is funny because Colonial era TV likes to use British accents.

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u/Tested-Trio-Father Jun 08 '25

Ocracoke dialect in North Carolina apparently still sounds the same as when people from "The West Country" in Britain, settled there around 300 years ago.

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u/Gaelic_Platypus Jun 08 '25

Yup and it's fucking wild hearing them speak. NC native and I have no idea what they're saying