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Back in '96, we spent a few days in London before riding the train up to Glasgow for a
bus tour of Scotland. Never heard so many non-English accents as I heard in London -
and many of the native English accents had this Texan staring at the speaker with a
"HUH?" expression. Oddly enough, I had little problems with the Scottish version of
English. The Scots I could understand.
Was it Winston Churchill who declared the English and the Americans as two people
divided by a common language? It only LOOKS like the same language (sort of) on paper.
Spoken....not really.
Jo Byrd
(who's from Tech-ses an' kin tawlk REEL hoe-key when she wahnts tew...)
"Sean O'Donoghue (EPA)" wrote:
> And of course to those of us from countries such as Canada, Great Britain, and
> Australia it is a well known fact that
> Americans speak English as a second language, and some dialect of English as a first
> language.
>
> And then there are the Scottish - apparently they speak English - they can definitely
> write it (if rabid Robbie Burns can be considered to have written English...) -
> however no one else from anywhere other than Scotland who uses
> English has ever been able to understand their verbal utterances....
>
> It is Colour! Not Color! ;-)
>
> regards and thanks,
> Sean O'Donoghue-Hayes
> sean.o'donoghue -at- ericsson -dot- com -dot- au
> (61) (03) 9301-1695
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