----- Original Message -----
From: "michael poxon" <m.poxon@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: dialectal diversity in English
> Geordie (Newcastle) is a highly divergent dialect of English, with
> accompanying accent, witness for example
> /ja div@n wan@ bi gan@n o:t/ "You shouldn't go out", rendered usually as
"Ya
> divvent want to be gannin' oot", with gradually rising intonation. I find
it
> quite hard to understand my cousin, who has lived in that area for about
30
> years now!
> Mike
I wonder if 'gan' comes from the O/ME, as the Northern dialects tended to be
more conservative...