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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color:#5b1094">Sandy Fleming</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:fleemin@live.co.uk">fleemin@live.co.uk</a>></span></span><span></span></p>









<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Grammar" 2011.04.29 (02) [EN]</span></p>

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> From: <span><span style="color:rgb(91, 16, 148)">Pat Barrett</span> <span><<a href="mailto:pbarrett@cox.net" target="_blank">pbarrett@cox.net</a>></span></span><br>> Subject: <span>LL-L "Grammar" 2011.04.28 (06) [EN]</span></div>

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<br><div><font size="2">> The use of -s in other than 3rd person singular 
present tense verbs is a characteristic of certain English dialects. All persons 
have -s. </font></div><br></div>Memory isn't serving me too well on this
 but I think it's in Berkshire or thereabouts that it's all -s. There's 
somewhere else (Norwich?) where there are no present tense endings.<br><br>So if we want a simple standard for English...  :)<br><br>I'm
 finding it hard to search for this sort of thing. Wikipedia has pages 
about dialects but trying to follow links on them seems to lead to 
general geographic pages about the regions.<br><br>Sandy Fleming<br><a href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/</a><br>
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