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On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 06:39:16 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote: "Just Wondering" wrote in message ... On 6/30/2016 6:17 PM, Alex W. wrote: ............... Of course it looks better. It's be cause it IS better. It is the correct way. We invented it, you know.... The British may have invented Shakespearean English, but they didn't invent modern English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English "Americans returning to England after the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783 reported surprise at the significant changes in fashionable pronunciation." Canada and the USA preserved the language in its proper form. In 1783, who did the London nobility sound like? Today's Massachusetts? North Carolina? New York? Ohio? Ontario or Newfoundland, Canada? Australia? New Zealand? |
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... On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 06:39:16 -0400, "Jim Wilkins" wrote: "Just Wondering" wrote in message ... On 6/30/2016 6:17 PM, Alex W. wrote: ............... Of course it looks better. It's be cause it IS better. It is the correct way. We invented it, you know.... The British may have invented Shakespearean English, but they didn't invent modern English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English "Americans returning to England after the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783 reported surprise at the significant changes in fashionable pronunciation." Canada and the USA preserved the language in its proper form. In 1783, who did the London nobility sound like? Today's Massachusetts? North Carolina? New York? Ohio? Ontario or Newfoundland, Canada? Australia? New Zealand? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_English "Australian English began to diverge from British English after the founding of the Colony of New South Wales in 1788 and was recognised as being different from British English by 1820." We have no preserved recordings of speech before 1860, and that one is in French. --jsw |
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"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
... On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 05:27:50 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 06:39:16 -0400, "Jim Wilkins" wrote: "Just Wondering" wrote in message ... On 6/30/2016 6:17 PM, Alex W. wrote: ............... Of course it looks better. It's be cause it IS better. It is the correct way. We invented it, you know.... The British may have invented Shakespearean English, but they didn't invent modern English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English "Americans returning to England after the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783 reported surprise at the significant changes in fashionable pronunciation." Canada and the USA preserved the language in its proper form. In 1783, who did the London nobility sound like? Today's Massachusetts? North Carolina? New York? Ohio? Ontario or Newfoundland, Canada? Australia? New Zealand? In the terms Jim apprently is talking about, more like eastern Massachusetts. They were non-rhotic: they dropped final "r's" except for those that preceed a word that begins with a vowel. ("Cah" for "car.") -- Ed Huntress I suspect that eastern or maritime Canada may be the best example. |
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On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 09:43:34 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote: "Ed Huntress" wrote in message .. . On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 05:27:50 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 06:39:16 -0400, "Jim Wilkins" wrote: "Just Wondering" wrote in message ... On 6/30/2016 6:17 PM, Alex W. wrote: ............... Of course it looks better. It's be cause it IS better. It is the correct way. We invented it, you know.... The British may have invented Shakespearean English, but they didn't invent modern English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English "Americans returning to England after the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783 reported surprise at the significant changes in fashionable pronunciation." Canada and the USA preserved the language in its proper form. In 1783, who did the London nobility sound like? Today's Massachusetts? North Carolina? New York? Ohio? Ontario or Newfoundland, Canada? Australia? New Zealand? In the terms Jim apprently is talking about, more like eastern Massachusetts. They were non-rhotic: they dropped final "r's" except for those that preceed a word that begins with a vowel. ("Cah" for "car.") -- Ed Huntress I suspect that eastern or maritime Canada may be the best example. Maybe. The only person from maritime Canada I've spoken to recently is the PR woman for LVD Strippit -- and she lives in Belgium. g Ah, that's not quite true. I got a call from a reader in Nova Scotia a few weeks ago. He sounded a lot like me, only he talked slower... -- Ed Huntress |
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"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
... On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 09:43:34 -0400, "Jim Wilkins" wrote: "Ed Huntress" wrote in message . .. On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 05:27:50 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 06:39:16 -0400, "Jim Wilkins" wrote: "Just Wondering" wrote in message ... On 6/30/2016 6:17 PM, Alex W. wrote: ............... Of course it looks better. It's be cause it IS better. It is the correct way. We invented it, you know.... The British may have invented Shakespearean English, but they didn't invent modern English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English "Americans returning to England after the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783 reported surprise at the significant changes in fashionable pronunciation." Canada and the USA preserved the language in its proper form. In 1783, who did the London nobility sound like? Today's Massachusetts? North Carolina? New York? Ohio? Ontario or Newfoundland, Canada? Australia? New Zealand? In the terms Jim apprently is talking about, more like eastern Massachusetts. They were non-rhotic: they dropped final "r's" except for those that preceed a word that begins with a vowel. ("Cah" for "car.") -- Ed Huntress I suspect that eastern or maritime Canada may be the best example. Maybe. The only person from maritime Canada I've spoken to recently is the PR woman for LVD Strippit -- and she lives in Belgium. g Ah, that's not quite true. I got a call from a reader in Nova Scotia a few weeks ago. He sounded a lot like me, only he talked slower... -- Ed Huntress I visited Nova Scotia around 1980 and tried to find interesting places off the main tourist path, like boat builders and blacksmith shops, the Alexander Graham Bell museum, and an isolated inn at the entrance to Lake Bras D'Or whose owner offered boat rides out to Bird Island, where we could see the distinctive coastal features as Eirik the Red described them a thousand years ago. --jsw |
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On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 05:27:50 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 06:39:16 -0400, "Jim Wilkins" wrote: "Just Wondering" wrote in message ... On 6/30/2016 6:17 PM, Alex W. wrote: ............... Of course it looks better. It's be cause it IS better. It is the correct way. We invented it, you know.... The British may have invented Shakespearean English, but they didn't invent modern English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English "Americans returning to England after the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783 reported surprise at the significant changes in fashionable pronunciation." Canada and the USA preserved the language in its proper form. In 1783, who did the London nobility sound like? Today's Massachusetts? North Carolina? New York? Ohio? Ontario or Newfoundland, Canada? Australia? New Zealand? "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. " --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
... On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 05:27:50 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 06:39:16 -0400, "Jim Wilkins" wrote: "Just Wondering" wrote in message ... On 6/30/2016 6:17 PM, Alex W. wrote: ............... Of course it looks better. It's be cause it IS better. It is the correct way. We invented it, you know.... The British may have invented Shakespearean English, but they didn't invent modern English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English "Americans returning to England after the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783 reported surprise at the significant changes in fashionable pronunciation." Canada and the USA preserved the language in its proper form. In 1783, who did the London nobility sound like? Today's Massachusetts? North Carolina? New York? Ohio? Ontario or Newfoundland, Canada? Australia? New Zealand? "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. " "Proper" was a jab at Brits who tout their Received Pronunciation as the truest form of English, when it was really an artificial affectation of the nouveau riche industrialists and mill owners. I'm familiar enough with Latin, Greek, French and German to recognize the diverse origins of English words. --jsw |
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"Jim Wilkins" wrote in message
... "Gunner Asch" wrote in message ... On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 05:27:50 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 06:39:16 -0400, "Jim Wilkins" wrote: "Just Wondering" wrote in message ... On 6/30/2016 6:17 PM, Alex W. wrote: ............... Of course it looks better. It's be cause it IS better. It is the correct way. We invented it, you know.... The British may have invented Shakespearean English, but they didn't invent modern English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English "Americans returning to England after the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783 reported surprise at the significant changes in fashionable pronunciation." Canada and the USA preserved the language in its proper form. In 1783, who did the London nobility sound like? Today's Massachusetts? North Carolina? New York? Ohio? Ontario or Newfoundland, Canada? Australia? New Zealand? "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. " "Proper" was a jab at Brits who tout their Received Pronunciation as the truest form of English, when it was really an artificial affectation of the nouveau riche industrialists and mill owners. I'm familiar enough with Latin, Greek, French and German to recognize the diverse origins of English words. --jsw Another view: http://www.accenthelp.com/blogs/acce...iation-history "Originally, it was likely the accent of the East Midlands region of England (see the photo to the right) back in the 15th century. It spread further than other accents of that time because of the prosperous trade of that region, sending the accent further afield and associating it with economic success. As trade became more and more centered around London and spread towards the south of England, the accent found its new home there." --jsw |
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