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From: dkaulf@hpqt0147.sqf.hp.com (Dick Kaulfuss)
Subject: Re: Scots and English (was: Re: Flemish and Dutch)
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Stewart McKenna (ahipc1j.smcken01@eds.com) wrote:
: ilonakd@ripco.com (Ilona Koren-Deutsch) wrote:
: > >In the US we frequently mistake people speaking English with
: > >a Dutch accent for natives of New Jersey or Manhatten.
: > >Interesting parallel.


: I think he was making a joke. Mahatten was originally New Amsterdam.
: Don't know about New Jersey !

   Isn't Ilona a woman's name?

: Another parallel word: Bairn is used in Scottish and Frisian for
: child..

   And Swedish. (Probably Norwegian & Danish, too.)

   Dick 
