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Old 06-13-2008, 11:17 AM   #52
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Do you know why English words will have that u, but American ones won't? It's because you share an island with Gaelic. You have all these extra vowels, and they have to go somewhere.
Once upon a time Gaelic was a 'common' language in the US - taken there by Scot and Irish settlers escaping their homeland landlords...
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