Re: dialectal diversity in English

--- Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>
wrote:
> >My father distinguished three languages -- Mercan,
> >Yankee and Furn.  British was either a divergent
> >dialect of Yankee or an *almost* reasonable dialect
> of
> >Furn.
>
> [yVr "d{@diz "f{:mli dIn h{v noU "k7r`pEt_} "b{:gVrz
> InIt_} dI:t]?
>
[DVmz fA:tn w@rdz bVb] [&kSVli D@r wVz DIm folks frVm
narT k@rlAn@ whVt fIt f@r d@ ju:njn bVt DImz tVrnkots
nat b&gVrz]

Adam

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