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From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: American Accent
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Date: Tue, 4-Oct-83 14:17:56 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  4 14:17:56 1983
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It's well known that at least one major feature of French, the r in the
throat that earned them the affectionate nickname of frogs, is only about
fifty years old (and has not penetrated to any great extent into
francophone areas outside of Europe, especially Africa, but not to
forget Acadiana).  So it wouldn't be surprising if modern English
accents were of equally recent origin.
-- 
John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas
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