LL-L "Language varieties" 2003.02.17 (15) [E]

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From: Sandy Fleming [sandy at scotstext.org]
Subject: "Language varieties"

> From: Ed Alexander <edsells at cogeco.ca>
> Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2003.02.17 (01) [E]
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> the Grand Banks, and establish more permanent settlement.  However, it's
> true that the Newfie speech is much more closely related to that of
> "Scotch-Irish" (there's that damn word again) which dominated the American

I don't think so. This is the same careless mistake that
people keep making with Appalachian - an actual comparison
would reveal that these are closely related to the dialects
of the South West of England. Doesn't Newfie involve a lot of
gender nouns, whereas in Scots gender is normally restricted
to indicating sex? This is a feature of English west country
dialects as spoken in Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire &c.

Sandy
http://scotstext.org/

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