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Re: dialectal diversity in English

From:Adam Walker <carrajena@...>
Date:Saturday, May 17, 2003, 15:42
--- 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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