French in Maine article

[Joel S. Berson]

Perhaps similar to Appalachia?  Acadians who kept themselves in
isolation after the 1755 deportation, in the mountains of Maine.

Joel

At 6/3/2006 05:21 PM, you wrote:
>Shades of Elizabethan English in Appalachia.
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>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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