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Do You Know Where You Live?
An anonymous submitter writes "Thanks to GPS, it seems quite a few people are discovering they don't live where they thought. Prior to GPS, state, county and city borders were part law, part measurement, and part guesswork. Now, they're able to go back and discover where actual borders should be, and it's making many people unhappy. Some familes in Rhode Island are finding out they may actually live in Connecticut. Each state, county and city wants as much land as possible, because it means more tax income. The people caught in the middle simply want to know where they'll send their kids for school."
Since I have never truly heard the 'pure' dialect of the english language. I guess it's hard for me to say that we do or do not speak it more so.
To us, Canadian's, our english sounds better then any other Nation's english. But that doesn't make it a more 'pure' dialect then the english nor the Americans.
On the other hand, if we define English as from England, American as from America, Canadian as from Canada, and so on. Then by definition, the English would have to have the more 'pure' dialect of english, whether wer agree or not.
I do know people who speak Welsh, and they consider the language alive and well. And these people are from Wales in Great Britain.
~ kjrose
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Evan (no reference in this message)
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
But guess what, nowadays we could take England easily.
How many hundreds of nukes does the UK have? Might not be quite so easy.