Re: How you pronunce foreign place names

Lars,
You are quite right, though many dialects, especially the northern ones have
a lot of Old Norse in it, including deeply structural grammatically "loaded"
words and phrases.
Dan

From: Lars Finsen
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:09 PM

Den 24. jan. 2007 kl. 10.56 skrev Wesley Parish:
> Old English, if
> left to go its own way with a minimal of Romance borrowings and no
> Norman/Acquitainian court influences, would have ended up a lot
> more like
> Frisian and Low Saxon/Niedersassisch/Plattdeutsch.
I have noticed that local dialects in England often have remarkably fewer
French words than the language we learn at school.

LEF