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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Meanwhile the Americans have the British names but pronounce it completely different because of the fucking bostoners

[–] droans 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't place the blame on us. The British have changed their dialect like twelve times since we were their colony.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well that's because you unsubscribed from the language patches, made your own fork and then did nothing with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I assure you we have done plenty with that fork…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How do you pronounce Worcester?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Woster for short

[–] TAG 2 points 1 year ago

As an American who lived in Worcester, MA for a number of years: Wuster or Wustah

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Askin' the REAL questions!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also because the British have proven themselves incapable of taking care of the language, as proven every day by cockneys.

[–] 13esq 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The whole point of cockney is that you can tell who is and isn't a local.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And by local they mean on the street by street level.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Burning, ham

Yet they can pronounce Halifax just fine.