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From New York City, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

I'm John McWater and since we're just past Presidents Day

and since I'm reading a wonderful book, Russell Shortow's Revolution Song

really does make the Revolutionary War exciting.

And also because one of you asked for this last week, and you were right,

I've been thinking about doing this for a long time and I never quite get to it.

The Founding Fathers.

What did the Founding Fathers sound like?

How did they talk?

Specifically, did they have British accents?

Is the idea that because British English was recent,

and America was in closer contact with Britain and more Brits were coming over,

and there hadn't been time for American English to form,

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