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To: Cornpone

As a lit major, I heard over and over the assertion that the Catskills dialect of today is the closest current dialect to Elizabethan English.


78 posted on 05/05/2005 1:55:03 PM PDT by Xenalyte (It's a Zen thing, you know, like how many babies fit in a tire.)
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To: Xenalyte
... the Catskills dialect of today is the closest current dialect to Elizabethan English.

Catskills? Or Appalachia?

98 posted on 05/10/2005 12:09:19 AM PDT by dread78645 (Sarcasm tags are for wusses.)
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