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Experiences of America

you know mainly from there I guess have you been to America I have been yeah many many years ago where did you go uh L.A I've always felt a bit of a thing with New York really w...

Course: Accents and language differencesSection: British and American accentsSubtitles: en

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movies so

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you know mainly from there I guess have

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you been to America I have been yeah

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many many years ago where did you go uh

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L.A I've always felt a bit of a

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thing with New York really we've been

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there on holiday and then how does it

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differ from a British sex is uh

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completely different you notice that

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people

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often pronounce words yeah like schedule

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is now scheduled

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and that's an americanism and it's just

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become normally used in English yeah New

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York's got more of a twang to it and

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it's definitely more StreetWise sounding

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but then so is London so maybe that's

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city rather than anything else City

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versus country like we say thorough they

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say thorough right you say rude they say

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route yeah and they they say military

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and we say military in England we say

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Lieutenant they say lieutenants yeah and

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how do you why did you hear that so

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often

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uh I don't know is it um

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well I guess Gone With the Wind years

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back and things like that and Dixie I

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also loved

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