Re: Country Names -- Local Pronunciations

Joe Fatula scripsit:

> Has it not been in use in England's English?  Over here in America, I'd use
> "I guess" as the more default-ish form, with "I suppose" as an alternative.
> How is it used in England?
It used to be regularly denounced throughout the 19th and first half of
the 20th centuries as a hideous Americanism, despite the copious evidence
from Chaucer and Shakespeare among many others that it was old and
deep-rooted in the common tongue.

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