Country cousins, don't give up your lovely lilt to, loike, tawk in Dortspeak
Andrea Byrne
THEY speak with a mixture of quasi-American and upper-crust English intonation, they talk about drinking vino, about their love of boutique-shopping and sailing, they apparently love frequenting Lillies and Renards, and their favourite words are "like" and "so".
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