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by wutbrodo
3388 days ago
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My mom has a British/Indian accent but I've never even been there: there are a lot of less common words that I didn't even realize I said differently until I was too old to feel like intentionally changing it: rather with an 'ah', calcium with a 'sh', occasionally unconsciously spelling things "theatre" or "centre" or "harbour" (I guess a good chunk of the books I read growing up were from British publishers? I don't really know). I don't know why but I always managed to be surprised by how shocked people's reaction is to these pronunciations and spellings, especially because I've spent my whole life in California surrounded by immigrants (I'd say the percentage of friends I've had with parents born in America is in the very low double digits). |
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