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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Actually, a bunch of your people came over to America and brought the language with them and then they decided it needed improving so they improved it. Leaving the language not nearly as good back home.  |
As recently as when I was in college, there was an island off the North Carolina coast whose inhabitants spoke an evolved form of Elizabethan English. And the hillbillies of the Appalachians still sometimes use terms brought over by the Scots-Irish (Northern Irish Planters) such as Bodacious for "outlandish," being a corruption of Queen Boadicea.
I'm with those who hold that boldfaced conversation is about the worst idea ever advanced in self-publishing, with the possible exception of the Canadian gent who formatted his first paperback in Courier, decided the type was a bit light (which of course it was), and therefore did a Control-A and changed the whole book to boldface.