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Two can play at that game, ya colonial bastards :D

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Anthropology holds a some fascination for me, so I do love to watch various sayings and turns of phrase spread across the world.... like a plague.
Takes a while to get used to, though. Certain things (usually insults) just sound better when said with the right accent, be it English or American.
  • Listening to: Booming Orchestral Scores
  • Reading: You might be a zombie.
  • Watching: The Raid.
  • Playing: Borderlands 2
  • Eating: Chips......garnished with chips.
  • Drinking: Water.

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:iconardhamon:
~Ardhamon Oct 7, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
That's interesting even to me. lol
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:iconurvogel7:
LANGUAGE WAR!!! MAN THE DICTIONARIES, TO QUOTES! TO QUOTES!!! We'll show those limeys who's butchery of our tongue is more catchy!
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:iconslyfxz:
~SlyFXZ Oct 2, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I hope Toss Pot and Tossa make it across the pond...

Now Bugger Orrrff its time for me tea and crumpets my dear!
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:iconltfoehammer:
As long as we stick with aluminum and two-syllable glacier I don't care how much British infects American English.
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:iconbruiser128:
Actually even though i'm Canadian I use a lot of English phrases when I talk.
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:iconderrflinger:
Instead of ginger we would just say "I'd rather be dead than red on the head." But then the nineties were a very different time. Also, strongly believe blasphemy sounds better in an Old Southern American (confederate) or texan (also a form of confederate) accent.
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~SherbertTCat Sep 29, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Colonial Bastards?
Excuse me, but neither side of my family made it to America until the 19th century.
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:iconwesleyriot:
*WesleyRiot Sep 29, 2012  Professional Filmographer
" Unlike in the UK, there is no anti-ginger prejudice in the US, she says" - what about South Park where cartman is convinced ginger people have no souls?

ive read at least one Harry Potter book that was mauled into American english, which is infuriating because it would never happen the other way
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*MisterVikingGib Sep 29, 2012  Professional General Artist
Just my Canadian 2 cents worth. Maybe it's the Canadian influence also? I mean we have been using the Queen's English for centuries. Oh BTW, it's colour, not color.
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:iconsovietfox:
~SovietFox Sep 29, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
Regardless of where it comes from, WE RULE THE ECONOMY.

Sorta. I prefer British English spellings of a lot of things, though I am American myself.

Example "Civilised" rather than American "Civilized', like we became to lazy to remember s can be a z like in German...
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