LL-L "Language varieties" 2006.02.28 (03) [E]

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A=Afrikaans Ap=Appalachian B=Brabantish D=Dutch E=English F=Frisian
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28 February 2006 * Volume 03
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From: Pat Reynolds <pat at caerlas.demon.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Diversity" 2006.02.28 (01) [E]

Lowlands-L <lowlands-l at LOWLANDS-L.NET> (Ron and others) writes
>Just some thoughts on the matter.

I agree that diversity is wonderful (and different doesn't mean wrong) -
but have nothing to add. But I wanted to write and say that this thread
has had a strange side-effect.  The initial post made me think 'I don't
know that much about Saxon'.  

So I went off and dug up David Crystal's _Linguistics_ (the only thing I
could find with a family tree of languages in it), and was very shocked
to find that I had been operating under a delusion all these years. I
had got Saxon on completely the wrong part of the family tree! Now I've
got that sorted ... does anyone know (preferably digitally or on the
web) where I can get linguistic maps showing where Saxon was used (both
where it was the main language, and where it was not the main language)
I'm particularly interested in 1400 - 1800.

Cheers, 

Pat
-- 
Pat Reynolds
pat at caerlas.demon.co.uk
   "It might look a bit messy now, 
                    but just you come back in 500 years time" 
   (T. Pratchett)

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