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Originally Posted by Notjohn
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.
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NJ, when
you were in college, Elizabeth I was
still the Queen. :-)
Hitch