Thread: What's a dead giveaway that someone is British?

What's a dead giveaway that someone is British? (by Sparky)

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ramrod007 (9)

(60 / M-F / New South Wales)
4-Sep-14 11:41 am

Zilya777: no americans don,t use the english language as in the queen's english they have a slang version as do australians we tend to shorten words
like "good day"australians would say "gidday"

Last edited by ramrod007; 4-Sep-14 11:46 am.

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Zilya777
4-Sep-14 12:32 pm

@ramrod007: We deffinity don't use the Queen's English. Here pronunciation, diction & not using slang.. Is an education & class issue. :-)
We even had a government program here, which was closed recently ( 1-2 mo ago), to teach people not to use Southern slang & to weed out all Southern dialects. ( We have a few kinds) . But so many people screamed discrimination, that the Government shut the program down.
But we are, most definitely judged by our speech.

Last edited by Zilya777; 4-Sep-14 12:44 pm.

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ramblinman
4-Sep-14 2:58 pm

@ramrod007: exactly

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ramblinman
4-Sep-14 3:02 pm

@Zilya777: tell me about it! I grew up in the Philippines and a few different places in the south, but all my family on my dad's side are up north, and on my mom's side in Louisiana. So my d@mn accent is a hodgepodge from all over. It can be disconcerting when you first meet me, I'm told.

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