[Ads-l] Song: "The Unicarn"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Aug 5 04:25:26 UTC 2015


The vowels used by the (Canadian) Irish Rovers in -orC words  - unicorn,
born, sort - have struck me as being very similar to those of the (old?)
Saint Louis dialect-island, for the five dekkids or so. Yet, AFAIK, no one
has ever cried Wolof about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGgo4dYMxcg

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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