Word: accented
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...other hand we have the "blood is thicker than water", type; persons who simply must have their tiffin, and into whose speech creeps a home-made Oxford accent whenever they talk to "those of the middle and lower classes." These are amusing and do little harm. What they fail to see is that we are no more English than we are anything else; in short, that we are Americans...