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I thinks it's possible with the access we both have to the other country's media via Netflix, prime, Hulu, et c., that our accents re-merge. When I was a kid, British accents were a little harder and Scottish accents were impossible, but after 15 years of Netflix, I don't even notice British accents anymore and Scottish accents are noticeable, but understandable.

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When I was a kid, no way could I understand a Geordie accent. I was raised with a RP accent, but I lived in Liverpool; I could understand ordinary scouse fine.

But my mates would sometimes launch into a very broad scouse accent to tease me; I could only just understand that.

Things have changed. Nobody nowadays speaks Geordie with the very broad accent that I couldn't understand as a kid.

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