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Old 10-31-2011, 05:33 PM   #1147
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Originally Posted by kennyc View Post
I think it would work fine for me just like that, no other changes needed, and it would not have caused the pause that I experienced .. at least I don't think it would. As an American I'm just so conscious of "Pa" and "GrandPa" as southern and with southern accents, I have a hard time hearing them otherwise.
mmm ; the vagaries of the common language we sometimes call English .... !

There's no Da in this list of Scottish words ... only faither http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/genera...l#DialectWords

But there is in this .... http://www.archive.org/stream/cu3192...38813_djvu.txt
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