Why can't British pronounce their "th?"
Perhaps it relates to the "dental" part of "dental fricative?"
Why can't British pronounce their "th?"
Adrian Scott
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Aiden White
What on earth do you mean?
Leo Roberts
The burden of proof is on you
Only then will we know about what on earf I'm talking
Juan Lopez
Oh you mean earf. That's an Essex thing.
Everywhere else enunciates -th correctly.
Asher Russell
teeth are necessary to pronounce "th"
Does pic related also happen to be more common in Essex?
The accent might have developed out of necessity
Henry Edwards
Þ!
Christopher Cook
>limeys faces when encountering þ
Parker Bennett
you know the british way of pronouncing things is the right way?
Lincoln Butler
>ya nuh the bri'ish weeh of pronuncin' things is the righ' weeh
Gabriel Adams
>Cannot pronounce a simple dipthong
>the right way
Carson Johnson
it's the original
David Garcia
The American pronunciation is known to be closer to the original English pronunciation though
Grayson Roberts
well excuse me, den. I've bean rohng dees hole toim it seems!
Oil get ta work currekting moy mispronunciations, den! I'm finking dat it wohn't take ahl too long!
Nathaniel Torres
t. sounds like a robot
Andrew Long
>Perhaps it relates to the "dental" part of "dental fricative?"
kek
pretty good one
Camden Peterson
nah its the whole south east I LIVE HERE trust me
Parker White
That's just an American myth.
Lincoln Kelly
no, no it's not.
this meme originates from the fact that standard British English had a rhotic R like modern day english.
the "standard" modern British accent is rhotic anymore, but some accents, like the cornwall accent, are.
i don't understand how anyone could fall for that meme. it makes absolutely no sense.
how could an accent remain closer to the "original" version after being flooded with non-British immigrants from Europe?
these videos prove my point.
In this video is an American soldier, probably born in around 1840. Listen how British they sound sometimes.
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This one is self explanatory.
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Jonathan Collins
>oi bruv, lemme turn on the tele. i shank ur nan bruv i swer on me mum you tosser
Eli Rogers
This thread is like our eu-pt vs br-pt battles
Christian Morris
It's called th fronting and it's done all over the UK. However we can and do pronounce "th" properly.
Sebastian Long
ey dude lemme turn auhn tha tv. I'mmo staahb yo graanmarr I swurr to guahhd
Camden Taylor
>how could an accent remain closer to the "original" version after being flooded with non-British immigrants from Europe?
You're using the word remain when that's not what he said
I have never heard his claim before, and personally I dont care, but there's nothing logically impossible about it, and your videos are not "proof" of anything.
Carson Barnes
i keked. nice one
Logan Rogers
General American sounds absolutely nothing like older English forms. There are dozens of innovations that aren't even found outside North America, let alone in English spoken before the point of divergence.
Camden Perez
>General American sounds absolutely nothing like older English forms.
That's fine with me. I don't care. But "how could an accent be closer to the original, compared to this other group, after being influenced by X,Y,Z" is not a reasonable line of thought to dismiss the idea on.
Brody Fisher
This is how shakesperian English sounded like:
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