Northern accents could start dying out within the next 45 years as a result of the rising dominance of southern dialects, according to a new study. Researchers at Cambridge University found children living in towns and cities across the north of England are increasingly using pronunciations more usually spoken in the south because they are easier to pick up. “What we see are changes happening in big classes of words - but not all of them,” said one researcher.
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Time traveller from 5000 in water warning
A man who insists he is a time-traveller from the year 5000 says entire cities will be underwater because of climate change. The man, known only as Edward, said he was part of a top-secret time-travelling experiment in 2004 and was sent 3,000 years into the future. He says he discovered Los Angeles submerged by a great body of water. Last week, a time traveller from the year 2491 said giant aliens with a “distorted appearance” will arrive on Earth in 2022.
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