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Re: [conculture] Re: Greetings!

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Monday, March 29, 1999, 20:47
Tom Wier wrote:
> What's > to say that these two communities didn't exist side by side, together, > and English only began to absorb them, slowly, over a period of > centuries?
According to my History of the English Language class, these forms often existed in the North of England for centuries, slowly diffusing southward. I suspect that what the OED lists as "entering the language" is when it entered the southern dialects, especially London's dialect. -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-name: NikTailor