I think it was some monarch who had this speech-difficulty (was it Queen Anne ?) which became fashionable (if not de rigueur) throughout the lackey-class, then a horribly-enduring normality amongst the Upper and Colonial, Slave-trading, Irish/Scottish absentee-landlord Class of people, and, of course, schoolteachers.
The same thing happened at the royal court of pre-Revolutionary France, thus making modern 'proper' French sound like the result of some laryngeal malady.
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I think it was some monarch who had this speech-difficulty (was it Queen Anne ?) which became fashionable (if not de rigueur) throughout the lackey-class, then a horribly-enduring normality amongst the Upper and Colonial, Slave-trading, Irish/Scottish absentee-landlord Class of people, and, of course, schoolteachers.
The same thing happened at the royal court of pre-Revolutionary France, thus making modern 'proper' French sound like the result of some laryngeal malady.
– a sort-of-Irishman in Occitania
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