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She's from around High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. Unfortunately neither of her parents have th-fronting and the only own of her friends from around that area that I've met doesn't seem to have th-fronting either, but her accent's a bit more RP-esque. So I can't say whether the use of [və] in place of [ðə] is a feature common to that area or just something specific to her.

She also uses [v] in words like "that", "this", "than" and [f] in "thin", "thick", "thorn", etc.

I think that's the Scouse or Estuary dialect.

I do propose Liverpool should be a country due to the non-connections with the rest of the England. ;p

I'd say Dominica and Micronesia(sounds more as a geographical term than a name of a country).

If you listen to some non-scousers, the same thought seems to exist round the rest of the country :p

I thought, until i was ~12 years old, that Moldova and Timbuktu were just some random made-up countries mentioned in comics or something.

When I was very young (about six), I used to think Timbuktu was in Scotland.

When I was browsing through the World Almanac, I had never heard of Gabon.

And the Maldives? You never hear about them. There are also a lot of people who have never heard of Brunei.

(I'm from the United States, by the way. California, to be exact.)

At least with countries like Burkina Faso, they're so obscure that people frequently use them as examples of random countries, so most Americans have heard of them.

In Swedish we say "Långtbortistan". "Långt bort" means "far away", and "-istan" is pretty self-explanatory.

In the US we sometimes call some obscure, socially backward place a "dumb-fuck-istan"

Is this an old term or something invented after the recent wars?

Is this an old term or something invented after the recent wars?