Re: Old magazine articles.

On Jun 7, 2:16 pm, Blue Sow <janet.r...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
FCS wrote:

I posted it here in the vain hope that it might encourage the readership (if
there is a readership here) to post something of their own, perhaps without
worrying about what others may think of it.

I think there is one. But yes, it's a funny old state
of affairs really isn't it? In order, really, to write
you have to care about spelling, grammar, nuance, idiom,
connotation, economy, style...then, having done all this,
not care one jot how it's received.

Ever noticed how despite you can tell the accent of one
olden village which is now a suburb from another after
a while, the approximations of spellings which are
supposed to be the key to the pronunciation are remarkably
consistent?

I saw some from Staffordshire which were more similar to
the stuff that gets passed of as Yorkshire than any two
people's informal e-mails would ever be likely to be.

It would be interesting to spend sufficient time in the
libraries round there to see if the same late-Victorian
theories of racial supremacy abound in dialect linguistics
textbooks there as they do in Yorkshire.

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