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Old October 19th 03, 02:54 PM
Judah
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Whachyous talkin' 'bout? Us New Yoakers talks perfectly good english!

Besides, our english comes from the Dutch!

Robert Moore wrote in
. 7:

"Peter Duniho" wrote

Of course, that story was obviously translated from whatever the
folks living in the Appalachian "hollers" speak. I don't know what it
is, but it isn't English.


Yes Pete, I see the smiley, but I still take it as a personal
insult having been born up Shelby Hollow in Shelbiana, Pike Co.,
Kentucky where the almost pure English descendants spoke some-
thing a lot more akin to the English spoken in the British Islands
than do many New Yorkers. :-)

Bob Moore