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   From: fn62@dial.pipex.com   
      
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   >   
   > Alison Hopkins wrote:   
   >>   
   >> You illiterate oaf. It's akin to a Black Country accent, which is totally   
   >> unlike a Scots brogue. .......   
   >   
   > P.S.   
   >   
   > "Shakespeare wrote prior to the great vowel shift, and therefore used   
   > european-style vowels (where e sounds like a, i sounds like e, and so   
   > forth)."  As example, Shakespeare would have said:   
   >   
   > Toe bay orrr note toe bay,   
   > Dat eest day ques-tee-on (note the french pronunciation of question)   
   >   
   > Again, my source for this information is a HARVARD professor.... a   
   > highly-intelligent english professor who studies the evolution of   
   > languages for a living.   
   >   
      
   Yes. And that which you have just transcribed is just how they talk in the   
   depths of the Black Country. Not Scotland. And that is NOT a French   
   pronunciation, the French say kes-ti-on, not kwest-i-on.   
      
   Ali   
      
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