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Thread #95549 Message #1859548
Posted By: Peace
15-Oct-06 - 03:08 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Is Scots a Language or a Dialect?
Subject: RE: BS: Is Scots a Language or a Dialect?
English
Through--oo
Though--oh
Bough--ow
Rough--uff
Thought--aw
Go figger.
To make the long 'e' sound we have sea, see, me, receive, believe, ski, and about a half dozen others I can't be arsed to recall. I agree with Dave. No doubt if the Anglo-Frisian speakers had heard 'English' a few hundred years later they would have talked about the decline and fall of the language. No doubt the West Germanic speakers thought the same of the Anglo-Frisians.
I agree with Dave O despite not disagreeing with anyone else. Like, what it be?