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   From: innes8@verizon.net   
      
   "Conway Caine"  wrote in message   
   news:XAiwi.35333$ax1.28225@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...   
      
   >>> Speaking of which, I've watched a couple of episodes of "The   
   >>> Eastenders".   
   >>> What language are they speaking? Certainly not English.   
   >>> I had to use closed captions to follow the dialog.   
   >>   
   >> ROFL!   
   >>   
   >> Derived from East Saxon, friend. And then from some deliberation,   
   >> obscured in a metropolis, so that communication should be somewhat   
   >> clannish, rather than any universal modus.   
   >   
   > Reminds me of the Cant spoken by America's contingent of the Irish   
   > Travelers.   
   > No outsider can understand that dialect   
      
   I think Mr. van Dyke was a famous drunk, and most of the time its a wonder   
   he could be understood by anyone.   
      
   Boston Irish have departed from the pure speech  and sound a bit like   
   Suffolk folk: They can't pronounce 'r' at all, and most vowels are   
   pronounced through the nose as 'a', in metallic twang. The sports team, the   
   'Celtics', is pronounced with a soft 'C', like Seltics.   
      
   Phil Innes   
   Vermont   
      
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