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Subject: [NJHUNTER] Re the "thee" and "thou"
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 00:21:04 EDT

My parents encountered a town in the mountains of Tennessee or Kentucky in
1933 where they were still speaking Elizabethan English. My Welsh-born
father could understand them but my American-born mother could not. However,
later, my parents encountered a town somewhere in Eastern Pennsylvania, same
time period, where no one in that town spoke English. My mother said they
spoke Dutch but I think it was German because I don't believe she understood
what Pennsylvania Dutch meant. The people in both towns had been in the USA
for 300 years!

Annie

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