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Re: The Letter "K"

From:Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>
Date:Sunday, February 29, 2004, 3:17
 --- John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
> Tristan: > > aitch/haitch > > Both Catholic and Protestant terrorists in Ireland > have been known to use > this word as a shibboleth for distinguishing the > religion of their > victims.
Yes I know, and I think it also has social features in formerly h-dropping parts of England..? I understand haich is/was stronger in Victoria than the rest of Australia, which implies that we got it from the Catholic Irish, who have formed a reasonable proportion of Victorian settlers way back when. (Though of course so many people came from all over the world when gold was discovered, so perhaps its just as possible it was a lowerclass English export...) -- Tristan -- Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com