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From: George M Gibault <gmg at direct.ca>
Subject: LL-L "Labels" 2002.10.28 (09) [E]

>Hi friends ( I hope)

Thanks to Gary for his PC police constable. The overlap with politically
correct is doubtful - but not impossible - particularly if the retired
British PC (Police Constable) is also a black Tory (in the Afro-Canadian
sense.) Of course this would make him simultaneously a red and black
Tory
(my Jamaican born doctor  fits this combo as well). It all goes to show
that in the interests of linguistic diversity it is helpful to have
friends
of all political stripes!

Thanks for the answer on Jacob/James! not to mention Diego! As to my
Plantagenet loyalty, I should clarify that this applies only to England
and
the Commonwealth - of course the House of Stuart - now represented by
the
Wittelsbach heir of Bavaria (ironically) is the legitimate royal House
of
Scotland - the perfidious "Act of Union" between the crowns of England
and
Scotland having been obtained by bribery - and hence void.

My allegiance to the Plantagents is not philosophical but genealogical.
For
example I have never forgiven the Tudors for beheading my ancestor
Ursula
Pole.

But speaking of the Tudor propagandist par excellence, William
Shakespeare,
I once read that he intended clearly for his characters to speak in
their
own local dialects and not in the sort of contrived "Shakespearean stage
English" we are all familiar with today. Apparently there is strong
evidence that his selection of words for certain characters - ( I
remember
reference to Hotspur and the Northumbrian uvular "r") to emphasize the
peculiarities of their regional speech. I have never heard a Scottish
sounding MacBeth let alone (little own?) a Gaelic accented one.
Any thoughts or experience of dialect in Shakespeare?    ps Saint Jacobs
Ontario where my maternal grandfather was born is still so German many
people jokingly refer to it as Yakobstrudel (a take off on "Jacob's
stettel.)

Alle die beste                  George

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