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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

An oldie but a goody, so long as you have the right accent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hm. Now I’m trying to think of an accent it doesn’t work in. Something like Baltimore or some variation of cockney? Rural Australian? Idk, it seems to work pretty much fine in all that I can think of.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I guess you forgot British English exists 😆 I had to have the joke explained to me as that's the English I was taught and had never heard the pronunciation that way before.

[–] applate 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can you share said explanation with the rest of the dullards such as myself?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Pronounce "lever" to rhyme with "weather" - the punchline will then make sense (I don't want to write it here in case I spoil it for someone 😀)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh right, that E) Yeah, I wasn’t even considering British English, went straight to the weird ones in my mind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Haha, the brain works in the weirdest ways sometimes! (Though British English is a bit weird tbh)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Wow, what a setup just for a play on words!

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