teenager doing accents

[Ann Burlingham]

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Paul Frank <paulfrank at post.harvard.edu> wrote:
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> Jonathan Lighter:
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>> FWIW, I've never encountered "take the piss/ piss-take" in U.S. English.
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>> Never.
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> 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.

Australian, too, from one of whom I picked up the concept.

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