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A Twitter thread on the origins of ‘BBC English’

And that’s why we (English-speakers in Ireland and Britain alike) say ‘garage’ to rhyme with ‘carriage’ rather than ‘barrage’. See also: the related concept of Received Pronunciation. #link

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