A-Z of English words with surprising origins
Dick Adams wrote:
Ariadne wrote:
Part of what makes English such a beautiful language.
As beautiful as English is, what makes it most amazing
is that every English speaking nation has a different
dialect and some have many dialects.
Once on a train to London, I was in a conversation with
two men from the far north of Scotland, a Cockney, an
Irishman, and an Englishman from Newcastle. *I kept
turning to the Englishman and asking "What did he say?"
It's several nations separated by a common language.
Dick
I'm very pleased that "Estuary" hasn't taken
over. But dialect words are certainly being
lost.
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