Re: dialectal diversity in English

En réponse à John Cowan :


>I'm betting, based on the situation in other dialect-rich countries, that
>there is a whole continuum from village-local all the way up to local
>pronunciation of the standard language, and the further to the left the
>speaker is on this continuum, the less is understandable.
Indeed.

>Typically local dialects are defined by the language behavior of older rural
>males, who are most often the most conservative speakers.
I concur, having a lot of trouble understanding the husband of my
sister-in-law, but not trouble understanding her. And both speak Brabants
;))) .


>Do you know the etymology of this name?  It looks interesting.
Unfortunately I don't, and I can't find it on Internet (strangely enough,
the only reference to "Chleu" it finds is about Berber ;))) ). I suppose it
has an etymology similar to "Chtimi" ;))) (or maybe it's originally a
derogative term).

Christophe Grandsire.

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