XPost: soc.culture.welsh, soc.culture.cornish, soc.culture.irish
XPost: soc.culture.scottish
From: micheil@shaw.ca
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:58:09 GMT, "Chess One"
wrote:
>
>"allan connochie" wrote in message
>news:46c1ca4b@news.greennet.net...
>>
>> "Chess One" wrote in message
>> news:7cIvi.9965$eb4.7044@trndny08...
>>>
>>>>>> >> > Why say English here? Why not say British?
>>>
>>> the question is, British what? language or culture?
>>
>> People! That is what was being talked about. Someone suggested that the
>> English weren't good at foreign languages. Someone else wondered why the
>> English were being singled out.
>
>Okay, this language we speak here is Anglo-Celtic, no? John Fowles who had a
>Cornish mother said so. Yet in this, there is much variety, and a different
>stress here and there on regional values, which mass media homogenises as if
>culture were some simile for common language, and which it necessarily in
>its broad appeal, glosses the difference thereof. I have not found this
>universal factor of language to be any true indicator of regional or
>specific value, except as [necessary?] expedient to propose political
>affiliation.
>
>Cordially, Phil Innes
>
>> Allan
>>
>
Notwithstanding, there are various associations in England for the
preservation of local speech forms in the face of a linguistic
takeover by the Standard English of the South.
I was intrigued when in Sussex (English south coast) to hear old men
in pubs not only pronounce "one" as "Wun", but also similar words like
"Oak" as "Wuk" and "Oats" as "Wuts".
It's also a fact that Scots speakers use the standard spelling for
numbers - One, Two, but pronounce them as "Ain, Twa".
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