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Old 03-30-2008, 11:23 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Can a person from Yorkshire understand what a person from Liverpool is saying without concentration?
I think the extremes have diminished over the decades; certainly before the railways when few people travelled across the Pennines they would have have difficulty, less so now. Now a lot of Americanisms have crept in and some English people use the American pronunciation
of schedule, for instance.
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