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Thread #103911   Message #2122535
Posted By: Snuffy
09-Aug-07 - 12:08 PM
Thread Name: Accents and Dialect
Subject: RE: Accents and Dialect
Queen Elizabeth I was going to make him Duke of Derbyshire, but the scribe who wrote out the parchment got it wrong, so they've stayed Dukes of Devonshire for over 400 years.