07-06-2007, 13:21 PM
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Originally Posted by dalem
I remember hearing, in an interview I believe, the linguist John McWhorter say that it's the British who have moved further away from the King's English since the Revolution, and that blue-blood New Englanders (you know, the "Daaahling" types) actually are closer to how English was spoken at the time.
-dale
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He might even be (partly) right, but he is undoubtably an expert and the problem with experts is they rarely find something to agree on.
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