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"School Students" — what, like there's any other kind of student?
Since it's Pennsylvania, the seeming redundancy is likely a heritage of the strong German influences in the region. German likes everything made explicit so there are a lot of phrases like "school stu …
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What is the factual basis for "pirate speech"? (Did pirates really say things like "shiver m...
"Pirate speech" is taken solely from Long John Silver in Treasure island and, as it relates to pirates as a whole, is entirely fictional.
However, Long John Silver is speaking a real vernacular/regi …
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Is there an American English dialect that sounds as "distingushed" as British English?
There was some discussion about this some years ago because some Brits got upset because it seemed that most of the powerful villain characters (like James Bond villains, ironically) usually had upper …
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