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Subject: Re: Languages (OT ?)
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 14:14:06 EDT


Dear Merilyn, Leo and others,
I don`t quite understand how We
are to know with any hope of precision whether or not American, Australian or
modern British is closer in pronunciation to Anglo Saxon, late Medieval Court
English (ie between 1400-1500 ) , Elizabethan (abt 1560- 1605) or later
forms or even of which classes it is supposed these dialects actually do derive
from. Interesting the speech of New England coastal Fishermen is not so very
different from that of the Texas Cowboy, possibly because of the extensive
migrations into the west prior to and following the American Civil War.
Sincerely,
James W Cummings
Dixmont, Maine USA

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