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Re: dialectal diversity in English

From:Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>
Date:Monday, May 19, 2003, 8:33
Joe wrote:

>From: "Robert B Wilson" <han_solo55@...> > > >>On Sun, 18 May 2003 16:11:55 +0100 Joe <joe@...> writes: >> >> >>>[DImz], I think, is "they're". >>> >>> >>i think it's rather "them's", contracted from "them is"... >> >> >I know. I thought we were doing a translation into modern English... > >
Standard Modern. The original was a dialect of Modern English. -- Tristan <kesuari@...>