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Both my parent are immigrants to NY from Dublin, and when I told my mother that I had been complimented on my clear pronunciation, and lack of NY errors (adding R's where none belong, and removing them from where they are, the NY variant of cockney H) she was non plussed--She was of the opinion that Dublin English was the richest and most refined of all!
But while still a child, (under 18) I met a man I would eventually marry (and divorce!) and used what I thought was a common word. He looked at me and said, "No such word" the argument was a draw; I found the word in the OED, but the OED said "Archaic". I stopped using the word.
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