Jed, Craig, & Terry sez: >>> England also has a wide range of dialects for such a small geographic >>> area. Some areas were remarkably isolated well into the 20th century. >>> A book about dialects that I read years ago said that in 1943, a >>> linguist found an old guy in a village in southern England who had >>> never heard of Winston Churchill. >> >> Do you ever watch Jay Leno? There are people in America who do not know >> the name of the president of the United States. > > My wife was at the manicurist yesterday near the Sugarloaf Country > Club and the women were discussing how the US had killed the president > of Pakistan (ObL).
Ah, cut them some slack Terry! ;-) Musharraf, when he was still prez, probably had ObL over for dinner plenty of times during Ramadan. Shoot! They probably wuz neighbors! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13262131 http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/pervez_musharraf/index.html Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
