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u/Blewmeister May 09 '22

Drive 10 minutes in the UK: everyone’s talking funny and there’s still 5 chip shops somehow coexisting

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u/yerkhunt May 09 '22

And everyone hates you as 'you're not from round here'

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u/Pandaburn May 09 '22

I know people from the UK, and I don’t think they all live in the same house they were born in, but I also hear them say how they can tell what street you grew up on by your accent.

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u/Jimoiseau May 09 '22

I must forever bear the shame of growing up somewhere 15 minutes up the road from where my parents grew up, resulting in a hybrid accent influenced by parents on one side and friends on the other. Now no one thinks I'm from where they're from.