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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>From: </font><span><span name="Paul Finlow-Bates"></span></span><span class="gI"><span name="Sandy Fleming" class="gD">Sandy Fleming</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org">sandy@scotstext.org</a></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Subject: </font><span class="gI">LL-L "Grammar" 2012.11.01 (04) [EN]</span></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gI"><br></span></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>From: <span><span name="Mike Morgan">Mike Morgan</span> <span><a href="mailto:mwmbombay@gmail.com" target="_blank">mwmbombay@gmail.com</a></span></span></font></span><div class="gmail_quote">
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Subject: <span>LL-L "Grammar" 2012.11.01 (02) [EN]</span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
<font>hills. I also don't know how common double modals are among BRITISH<br>
dialects of English south of the Scottish border, but I have a general<br>
theory, based on the fact that so many of what I have seen described<br>
as peculiar "Indianisms" in fact have parallels in the American<br>
Appalachian English I grew up hearing each summer ... and also out of<br>
the mouths of my parents each day. The SE was settled early on by<br>
large numbers of Protestant Scots and Irish -- presumably many if not<br>
most of whom were Scots speakers. So my theory is that Indian English<br>
is kindred, due to the "fact' that the British Raaj occupiers were<br>
also largely made up of Scots... but then maybe that is just an image<br>
I have from the movie "Gunga Din" of Scotsmen marching to bagpipes<br>
against the 1867 "mutineers". ;-)</font></span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></blockquote></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>Mike,<br><br>I use double modals when speaking Scots: it's more usual towards the south of the country, I believe.<br>
<br>It
seems to be the sort of thing that some speakers do and some don't. I'd
guess that, like double negatives, some avoid them because they've
heard that they're somehow not correct.<br><br>To me they give a definite power of expression and brevity, so I'm not giving them up!</span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><br><span class="HOEnZb adL">Sandy Fleming<br><a href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/</a></span><br></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">
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