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[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"NOT IN THE HARBOR!!!!": Their American cousins are over for a visit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

*Harbour, you fuckin degenerate ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At least we actually pronounce the R instead of somehow cancelling it by adding an unpronounced letter.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unless you're from Boston, in which case it's pronounced "Hah-bah"

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Pahk yah cah in the hahbah cah-pahk, Mahk!

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Says the guy that sounds like they're having an aneurysm when saying "squirrel" or "mirror" ๐Ÿ˜œ

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait what accent does thatโ€ฝ

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope, I've only heard ๐‘•๐‘’๐‘ข๐‘ป๐‘ค and ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฐ๐‘ฎ๐‘ผ

You must have only ever met those really weird Appalachian folks that apparently retained most of Shakespeare's English

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A) You don't hear yourself doing it, others do. I should know, being Scottish

B) That factoid was made up by a journalist to fill column inches and is utter nonsense

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Isn't your accent the one that pronounces r as some mutation of a german รผ soundโ€ฝ

Does any non received r just sound like a stroke to you peopleโ€ฝ

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fuckin hell, Phlubba, haud yer wheesht an away bile yer heid! ๐Ÿ˜‚

You would think if yanks were this defensive, they'd have won at least one of the last dozen wars they'd started ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜œ