What happened to the “old-timey” transatlantic accent?
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What happened to the “old-timey” transatlantic accent?
Why are old movies and news reports full of people talking with a weird, fast-paced, vaguely-British accent? It’s so iconic and distinctive that we treat it like a historical window into how …
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