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To: jdege

The English long spoken in Apalachia and preserved in folk ballads was closer to early English than the English spoken in London.

Now, of course, most people speak TV-speak.


27 posted on 06/09/2007 11:12:10 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero
The English long spoken in Apalachia and preserved in folk ballads was closer to early English than the English spoken in London.
Most Americans learned to read - and they learned to read from the King James Bible.
43 posted on 06/09/2007 7:00:44 PM PDT by jdege
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