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Thread #18490   Message #184141
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
24-Feb-00 - 02:00 PM
Thread Name: Help: relation between Ireland & Van Diemen's Land
Subject: RE: Help: HELP ME, IMPORTANT!!!: Van Diemen's Lan
Can't say 'Strine seems much like Norfolk to me. There's a lot of London in it, and Essex/Kent. The original Estuary English.

I suspect the main source of 'Strine people is having to talk with their lips closed to keep out the flies and the dust.