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From: ilonakd@ripco.com (Ilona Koren-Deutsch)
Subject: Re: Scots and English (was: Re: Flemish and Dutch)
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Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 14:12:41 GMT
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In article <D8nssD.CLp@hpqmoea.sqf.hp.com>,
Dick Kaulfuss <dkaulf@hpqt0147.sqf.hp.com> wrote:
>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?

Ilona is a woman's name.  And, by the way, she didn't say that crap about
mistaking Dutch people's English.  She responded to it, a response which
seems to have been deleted by someone who doesn't know how to work
attributions.

Things attributed here to Ilona, weren't written by me, Ilona.

_Ilona
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Ilona Koren-Deutsch				    ilonakd@golden.ripco.com 
They're called pumps, not tools of the patriarchy.  And how much tofu died
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