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- January 26, 2011, 11:06:10 PMted some sort of standard out of a chaotic collection of wildly differing regional dialects, it is an artificial You are not allowed to view links.
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Register or Login if we accept that those early settlers in America took with them some of the vocabulary and sound of historic England, it's still amazing that the language survived the onslaught of subsequent You are not allowed to view links.
Register or Login the second half of the 19th century some thirty million people poured into America, including Austro-Hungarians. Germans, Swedes, Dutch, Ukrainians, Irish, Poles and Russians. By 1890 there were over 300 German newspapers in the U.S.French was once spoken broadly in a geographical ribbon that stretched from Quebec (where it is still the first language today) to New Orleans. Cajun - a mangling of Acadian - still survives as a language today.Words poured into the American linguistic landscape from all these groups and others: Cookie came from the Dutch You are not allowed to view links.
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Register or Login may be a short history but it has been an intense one. When you really stop to consider it, it's amazing American English does bear as much similarity to what is spoken in modern day Britain. After all You are not allowed to view links.
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