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abr

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/15/upshot/british-irish-dialect-quiz.html
Bog standard, lamo southerner (not even really Londoner, where I grew up)

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chez_jay in reply to @abr
What's going on here? Surely these sounding the same (and 'fall' as well) is a staple of Estuary English?

[Edit: I was also annoyed by the inability to choose both 'it' and 'tag']

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itsbruce in reply to @chez_jay

In most of those areas "fool" is never used, let alone pronounced. Why would you when you have words like "bampot", "eejit", "heid-the-baw" and "numpty"?

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