| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 30, 1999, 19:09 |
Tom Wier scripsit:> Yet the dialects of the American colonies preserved > features that have largely disappeared or are disappearing in Britain today: > rhoticness, which though still there in some dialects is certainly not very well > looked upon; lexical items like the American "Fall" for British "Autumn"; > and grammatical features, like the American past participle "gotten" for RP > "got".And the present subjunctive! -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.