Cockney Questions and Slang Shape London Talk
London linguist Noel Burton-Roberts explains Cockney speech and its rhyming slang, dropped aitches, and the new conative question form. Observations trace the spread from East End roots to TV and radio usage across Britain. On this date in 1941 Yugoslavia surrendered to Germany amid ongoing partisan warfare.
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Vietnam Backing Talks If U S Aid For Missing GIs Offered
North Vietnam said it would resume discussions with the United States on normalizing relations if Washington provides economic aid in exchange for information on missing Americans. Hanoi demanded about 3 billion dollars as reparations and warned aid must come before searches for remains or returns of remains, while no aid precondition was stated for talks.
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Rat Nass Accent Not Really Texan
Dallas UPI reports phonetics professor Dr. Harold Weiss says Texas speech spans Southern Midwestern dialects with regional variation. He cites Lyndon Johnson and author Jim Everhart as examples and notes Texans do not share a single language.
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