lokilovesthorki:

hiddleston-daily:

“When you’re not filming, what do you like to do?”

Leave the wig on baby

Because I’m a total dork, the things about this that stood out to me most were:

  1. When Chris and Tom demonstrated one of the major differences between their dialects. Chris said “Good answer” with a short ‘a’ in “answer,” then Tom said it with a long ‘ah’ sound in “answer.” (This is because most of the immigration from southeast England to Australia happened before the dance subset joined the bath set with the lengthened and backed /a:/ phoneme.)
  2. A lot of the kids were using plural “yous,” as in “Thank yous,” “See yous later.” When a language loses a singular/plural second person contrast, people come up with various ways to reinvent it…

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