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Dear British scriptwriters:
No matter how convicing a Midwestern an accent a character manages to mimic, Americans do not say "messed about". We just don't, not ever. Not even I do, and I've got buckets and buckets of dialect shift due to decades of association with furriners. Try "screwed around."
love,
Me.
No matter how convicing a Midwestern an accent a character manages to mimic, Americans do not say "messed about". We just don't, not ever. Not even I do, and I've got buckets and buckets of dialect shift due to decades of association with furriners. Try "screwed around."
love,
Me.
