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Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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No time like the present to resurrect The Birdfeed-Strophic Great Vowel Movement hypothesis:
http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.php?Cat=0&Number=100461
What's this about a Great Bowel Movement.??
"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world" -Michael Crichton
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No time like the present to resurrect The Birdfeed-Strophic Great Vowel Movement hypothesis:
http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.php?Cat=0&Number=100461
An interesting read. Very well researched and prsented.
Having spent much time in (and around) the Washington, DC area I can attest that many of those 'Vowel Hordes' settled in Maryland.
Those native to Baltimore speak in an abbreviated fashion that economizes on consonants.
An aborigine will proudly state their birthplace as "Ball-murr, Murr-lyn, hun"
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GVM
Varra najs.
Kiitos.
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GVM
Varra najs.
Kiitos.
You guys break me up.
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Finnish (Suomi) is a Finno-Ugric language. Finnish has 15 cases for its nouns.
This is really amazing. What a language!
Yet when I see the word Suomi it leads me to: 'suomi sushi?'
Shall we have sushi together?
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If you knew Sushi like I know Sushi
Oh, oh, oh what a gal
There's none so classy as this fair lassy
Oh, oh my goodness what a chassis
TEd
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If I'm not mistaken chassis means the same as what the Congolese call
batterie? TedRemington, this is no Finnish (Suomi) at all !
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