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let's try to prove this through observations such as last names, culture, behaviour, cuisine, slang etc
when I watched Tom Sawyer cartoon, I thought to myself, hmmm this behaviour seems more similar to traditional peasant-rural Scandinavian like Swedish/Dutch/Bavarian etc
I thought the American word "cranky" sounds similar to German word for hospital krankenhaus
Apparently theres a British word for that too, but the meaning is different, so here there is linguistic evidence for the American-British connection, another one is the phrase "take the piss", but the meanings in US vs UK are totally different.cranky
ˈkraŋki/Submit
adjective
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BRITISHinformal
eccentric or strange.
"a cranky scheme to pipe ground-level ozone into the stratosphere"
synonyms: eccentric, bizarre, weird, peculiar, odd, quirky, avant-garde, unconventional, off-centre, strange, outlandish, ridiculous, ludicrous; More
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NORTH AMERICAN
bad-tempered; irritable.
"he was cranky after eight hours of working"
synonyms: bad-tempered, irritable, irascible, tetchy, testy, grumpy, grouchy, crotchety, in a (bad) mood, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, peevish;
The only really English behaviour I've ever seen was the Old black and white Hollywood films. But even that was deliberately made to resemble the English.
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