teenager doing accents

[Paul Frank]

Jonathan Lighter:

> FWIW, I've never encountered "take the piss/ piss-take" in U.S. English.
>
> Never.

That's what I meant. It's not American English. It's a British term
and a very British concept. Arguably the most British concept there
is. This dialect imitator is pretty good but he obviously hasn't lived
in the U.S.A.

Paul


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