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Programming Forum and web based access to our favorite programming groups.On 27 Jan, 12:46, docdw...@panix.com () wrote: > In article <6287f$45babdc4$d066072d$5...@FUSE.NET>, > > [DIALECT HUMOR ALERT!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!] > > Reminds me of the Old Southern Joke, usually told by an Old Southern Man: > 'I was walkin' thru the town t'other day an' I saw a boy, So this ol' southern gen'l'man was from Yorkshire?
Post Follow-up to this messageIn article <1169906735.918646.250460@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com>, Alistair <alistair@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > >On 27 Jan, 12:46, docdw...@panix.com () wrote: > >So this ol' southern gen'l'man was from Yorkshire? I don't recall his geography being specified, Mr Maclean, but it most certainly is possible that he spent time in the North American state of Virginia, certainly. <http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.ad...r /> 4Z0MgVH%2 bqEe8HN7I6&ambiguity=1> (in order to repent for your provincial notions about dialect you might wish to consider how certain aspects of Elisabethan English were still to be found in areas of the Appalachian Mountains as recently as a half-century back (dialects, in general, are fading due to the onslaught of radio-/television-speak)... oh, I *cannot* resist... ... a bit of isolation made it difficult, it seems, for even diligent Americans to wash out that particular linguistic stain.... errrr, strain. DD
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