Has anyone else mentioned that they are looking forward to the Release of BoB (Opps! CoD!)
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Originally Posted by Richie
I wonder why English started to change when we came over to North America? Centre center zed zee etc...Of topic I better shut up.
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As with the colonisation of Australia and other parts of the English speaking world, when the people read the travel brochures any one who was literate decided very quickly that Dear Old England wasn't so bad after all!
To digress there was a study done to find the origins of the Australian accent. From what I remember it appeared very early days of the Sydney colony among the children who were rebelling against the adults who kept on telling them to speak proper. It didn't work and as people moved around quite a bit in the early colonial days it spread.
It's also accounts for the law in France that forbids Australians from speaking French!
(Edit: or what Setback says, he seams to have looked into it in greater depth!)
Cheers
02-19-2011, 11:42 PM
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