The Cormanus Chronicles

[pdedse]

Thanks for the article, pdedse. I love things about the history of the language. I'll consider myself chastened. Although I still want to drive/ride through/thru coffee and food!

Have you read Bill Bryson's book on the history of the English language? I think it's called Mother Tongue. As I recall, he reckons a lot of American pronunciation is closer than British English to the way people spoke in the 17th century.

That's the road from just north of Fernvale to Somerset Dam. It's a lovely ride, although the speed limit has been reduced at the southern end. Unnecessarily in my view. It's a big dea here where speed limits are strictly enforced. Then the early stages of the road north of Somerset Dam towards Hazeldean is pretty and windy, although the surface could use some work.

58 from Daybro to D'Aguilar is, indeed, a lovely ride, although popular with speed camera police over the weekend.

This is a favourite, easy ride, https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?m...sp=sharing

Oh, chastisement! That wasn't what I was aiming for! Driving through coffee does sound fun, though.

Thanks for the article, pdedse. I love things about the history of the language. I'll consider myself chastened. Although I still want to drive/ride through/thru coffee and food!

Have you read Bill Bryson's book on the history of the English language? I think it's called Mother Tongue. As I recall, he reckons a lot of American pronunciation is closer than British English to the way people spoke in the 17th century.

That's the road from just north of Fernvale to Somerset Dam. It's a lovely ride, although the speed limit has been reduced at the southern end. Unnecessarily in my view. It's a big dea here where speed limits are strictly enforced. Then the early stages of the road north of Somerset Dam towards Hazeldean is pretty and windy, although the surface could use some work.

58 from Daybro to D'Aguilar is, indeed, a lovely ride, although popular with speed camera police over the weekend.

This is a favourite, easy ride, https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?m...sp=sharing

I may have, such is my memory. I'm "gonna" check and if I haven't, sounds interesting. A similar thing has happened with Spanish. Certain dialects of "Spain" Spanish made it to certain areas of the New World when the Spaniards first arrived in the 1520s. Then other dialects crossed over to other areas 100 years later, and still other dialects 200 years later. This is part of the reason why today there are lots of dialects of Spanish spoken in this hemisphere. They all understand each other, but they all disagree frequently over whether it's "trunk" or "boot" / "lift" or "elevator" (to use English equivalents). And just as British English pronunciation differs substantially from that of American, Canadian, Australian (etc) English, so too are there lots of pronunciations differences of Spanish. Fun!

I don't like the sound of traffic police keeping close tabs on the speed limits. That's one thing that you can easily avoid out in the vastness of the western states of the U.S.