Re: German and English (was Re: Losing languages ...)
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 25, 2003, 21:56 |
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Joe scripsit:
> But a sizeable minority's does - me, Michael Poxon, Ray Brown, Dan Jones,
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And R is definitely English, and speaks what Peter Ladefoged
(self-)deprecatingly calls "debased RP".
As for Ray Brown, he's bi-dialectal, and can say "driven" or "druv", depending
on the audience. :-)
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