Re: Country names
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Thursday, May 8, 2003, 12:18 |
Tristan McLeay scripsit:
> >three firetrucks respond (a "three-alarmer").
> >
> Ah, someone else who can talk properly :P
He was born in Rye, New York, and grew up there and in Atlanta, Georgia;
cities with quite different dialects, but both firmly non-rhotic.
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