To: Theoria
I've got an Argentine friend who emigrated from Scotland as a boy. The only way I can understand his “english” is get a few drinks down me.
10 posted on
08/11/2017 9:35:01 AM PDT by
llevrok
(A group of baboons is called a "congress." Just sayin' .....)
To: llevrok
"I've got an Argentine friend who emigrated from Scotland as a boy. The only way I can understand his “english” is get a few drinks down me. " I've read that the English as spoken in the Southern USA today is more kin to the English spoken in England in the 1700's than the English spoken in England today.
15 posted on
08/11/2017 9:57:16 AM PDT by
blam
To: llevrok
Knew a couple from South Africa some years back.
They could be understood if they spoke slowly...
17 posted on
08/11/2017 10:14:01 AM PDT by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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