u/holytriplem

For instance, Glasgow in my own accent would be pronounced something like Glaaahs-goh. But in my brain, it's always GLAZ-geh in a bad Glaswegian accent, and anything else sounds weird and wrong

Probably not that interesting to think about what would happen to Zanzibar since it would just have been lost to the UK with Tanzania after WW1 anyway. I'm more interested in what would have happened to Helgoland.

Would the UK have hesitated more before declaring war on Germany in 1919 and 1939, or would it have given the UK more confidence in not following a policy of appeasement knowing they had a military base so close to the German mainland? How easily would it have surrendered in WW1 and WW2? Would the UK have chosen to retain control of it after the end of the Cold War? How would the local people identify themselves?

- Accents from East Anglia (the East of England) are quite easy to mistake for accents from the Southwest of England, as they share quite a few features that were once widespread in rural areas of the whole of the South of England until the 20th Century, when features of London dialects of English started to expand across the South-East of England and gradually displace the traditional rural accents there.

- Posh Anglo-South Africans can also sometimes be mistaken for New Zealanders, as both NZ and SA were settled around the same time by people of similar backgrounds, and their accents therefore share some similar features.

- The Toronto accent shares a lot of similarities with young working-class London accents due to a similar immigration profile (especially from Jamaica).

Started experiencing serious anhedonia about two or three years ago, and questioning large parts of the identity and life choices I'd made for myself during my 20s. The anhedonia isn't as bad as it was at the time, but I do wonder if I'm going through a period of ego death, and I'm trying to find ways of accelerating the process of getting out of it, cause it suuuucks