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From: sarima@netcom.com (Stanley Friesen)
Subject: Re: Frisian and Old English
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References: <3779e7$14d@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> <CxHHqp.Bnq@inter.nl.net> <sarimaCxLFuK.5yq@netcom.com> <holman.370.2E9D7B5A@katk.helsinki.fi>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 04:31:12 GMT
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In article <holman.370.2E9D7B5A@katk.helsinki.fi>,
HOLMAN EUGENE <holman@katk.helsinki.fi> wrote:
>
>>Which dialect of Frisian?
>
>Sorry to ask, but since your last name is *Friesen* might you have a vested 
>interest in the answer???
>
>
>Couldn't resist askin'
>
Well, a sort of mild one.  My family does hail from that area,
from back in the 17th century or thereabouts.  But as far as I
know we have "always" spoken Low German, not Frisian.
[Well, at least until my father's generation, now we speak English,
and I personally know more High German than Low].

Actually, my interest is largely linguistic.
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