French in Maine article

[Beverly Flanigan]

Shades of Elizabethan English in Appalachia.

At 04:12 PM 6/3/2006, you wrote:
>The New York Times has this article on native French making a comeback in
>Maine after decades of stigma.  There are some claims that North-American
>French
>is is more similar to the French of Louis XIV than Parisian French...sounds
>dubious.
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/us/04french.html?pagewanted=1
>
>Dale Coye
>Wilton, NH
>
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