• teuniac_@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    It’s okay not to know. English is spoken in a lot of different places in different ways. I doubt that in your 40 years you’ve explored this.

    Google Trends shows that it’s most popular in Malaysia and the Philippines, relative to its use in other countries.

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      1 month ago

      That explains it. Nobody in America says that and we outnumber the next three native English speaking countries combined.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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        1 month ago

        India uses English as a lingua franca, they have their own phrases, dialect and everything, and they outnumber the American continent combined.

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        1 month ago

        I’m native to North Carolina and I’ve heard it before.

        But this country has 40 or 50 regional dialects. Probably more.