On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 01:29:25PM -0600, Michael P. Brininstool wrote: > On Monday 28 August 2006 19:01, Robin Laing wrote: > > > > Geordie dialect (Newcastle area) is believed to have the most authentic > > with better than 80% historically correct :-) > > Interesting! I took a class in history where the instructor was talking > about the evolution of languages and pronunciations, and he said the closest > dialect to the British of the 17th century is the dialect of American > English currently spoken in the countryside around Atlanta, Georgia. "British"? Isn't that where we came in? If you (or your instructor) meant English, I would ask, which dialect? As for linguistic migration patterns from England to North America, see David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed, OUP (I think). -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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