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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Xmas in Beijing
- Message-ID: <12209@scott.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 11:35:45 GMT
- References: <20200.2b383abb@ul.ie>
- Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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- In article <20200.2b383abb@ul.ie> mckeonj@ul.ie writes:
- <Just for fun at Xmas time, a definition:
- <A native English speaker is one who cannot, or will not,
- <pronounce the guttural H.
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- This can't be richt. It leaves out a bonny number of Scots.
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- `D'ye mind tellin me whit the two o ye are gaun oan aboot?' (The Glasgow
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