
Bonus Episode: Rise and Fall of the Classic Movie Accent
The History of English Podcast
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The Differences Between William McKinley and William Howard Tapped
William McKinley was born in Ohio in 1843, and he served as president at the very end of the 1800s. William Howard Tapped was also born in Ohio, about 14 years after McKinley. Both men were born in Ohio around the same time and both grew up in Ohio. We would expect their accents to be very similar, but they weren't, they were quite different.
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