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  1. Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!bogus.sura.net!darwin.sura.net!ua1ix!ua1vm.ua.edu!JLINTHI1
  3. From: JLINTHI1@ua1vm.ua.edu
  4. Subject: Re: Americanisms (was Re: Back from the UK)
  5. Message-ID: <16B5FC584.JLINTHI1@ua1vm.ua.edu>
  6. Sender: news@ua1ix.ua.edu
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: ua1vm.ua.edu
  8. Organization: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
  9. Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:02:44 GMT
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  11.  
  12. Talk to a linguist, I'm sure they can tell where and usually when
  13. the strange dialectal shifts happened. (Since I'm currently taking
  14. a similar course in linguistical anthropology, I can definitely
  15. attest to that.)
  16.  
  17. Yours,
  18. Julia E. Linthicum
  19. jlinthi1@ ua1vm.ua.edu
  20.  
  21. "There are even places where English completely disappears
  22. In America, they haven't used it for years." Lerner & Loewe
  23. _My Fair Lady_
  24.