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>>David Cowie wrote: >>>On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 17:12:06 +0200, Walter Mitty wrote: >>>>American accents? Totally out of place. >>>Does Thief 3 takes place in England ? >>And interestingly, if you've studied the history of the english language >>/kars > Source? Since none of the origins of the English language (Celts, Romans, /kars Walter Mitty wrote: It seems I haven't my "History of the English language" at hand (course
> Kars <nob...@nothing.com> brightened my day with his incisive wit when in
> news:408cf82c@puffinus.its.uu.se he conjectured that:
>>you see that the way american english sounds is closer to old english
>>than modern british english.
> Angles, Saxons, Jutes) sound anything like Americans I find this hard to
> believe : I'd love to see the facts.
literature from when I studied English at Uppsala University (Sweden)).
Then again, it might have been something a lecturer said, so
unfortunately I can't back up my claim right now :/