On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Craig Haynie <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 14:07 -0400, Jed Rothwell wrote: > >> 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). T
