On Monday 28 August 2006 20:29, 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. > Certainly I have read that many of the Americanised spellings that we tend to dislike were in fact common here at that time. That's not the same as dialect, though, not that I know anything about the dialect of Atlanta, Georgia. Anne
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