Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!andrew From: andrew@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Americanized and Biritshised English Message-ID: <1699@inmet.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Aug-84 00:40:35 EDT Article-I.D.: inmet.1699 Posted: Tue Aug 21 00:40:35 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 01:46:22 EDT Lines: 11 Nf-ID: #R:houxm:-82300:inmet:7300034:000:554 Nf-From: inmet!andrew Aug 12 17:19:00 1984 > At Oxford in the early fifties, the British English speakers used > simple test to determine whether another person spoke Non-British > English. The person was asked to pronounce "Mary", "marry", and > "merry". If the three were not quite distinct, the person was > identified as Non-British no matter how British his or her accent > seemed. Remember, though, that had it not been for us tacky, Non-British-English speaking Americans, the English would all be speaking German today! Andrew W. Rogers ...{harpo|ihnp4|ima|esquire}!inmet!andrew