Re: The Truth is out about the Irish, Welsh, Scotch, Mamx, Cornish, and Bretons

"Conway Caine" <ccaine@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> 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 <grin> 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 s****ts team,
the 
'Celtics', is pronounced with a soft 'C', like Seltics.

Phil Innes
Vermont