Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: GNU Date: 9 Mar 2026 20:49:04 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <10oeeru$kih0$1@dont-email.me> <10oeiea$lo5g$2@dont-email.me> <6our7mxi9i.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10oh35t$1g6or$1@dont-email.me> <10oj5ii$259sl$2@dont-email.me> <10ojna8$2ashr$3@dont-email.me> <1772999514-12588@newsgrouper.org> <0nlrqkhnvbaefd3t4en5qclp0g9696ss0b@4ax.com> <10okn6p$2nl86$4@dont-email.me> <87jyvlsf25.fsf@parhasard.net> <1773071338-12588@newsgrouper.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 8XdffQr+rMrYLC54c646rgB3L7DjybDE/P/z1ZrDyogRkk4R15 Cancel-Lock: sha1:fRYFfcaJ+rXr9KuYe1HjukyhHMA= sha256:YdvDHrgBkDcs8/PeAi+9oSuU9B1FLP1SfM9X2RCDKpU= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:82775 alt.usage.english:1139111 On Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:48:58 GMT, athel.cb@gmail.com wrote: > My father was born on Cape Breton Island, and lived there for the 12 or > so years of his life. However, all the time I knew him he spoke with a > pure RP accent. When he was sent to school in England I think he was > probably teased about his accent, and he made a strenuous effort to lose > it. His two sisters, > both younger than him, also spoke pure RP when I knew them. Islanders are different. A friend and I sailed the coast in an International 500 yawl one summer and visited some of the islands off the Maine coast as well as Grand Manan. Different accents among other things. A 32' boat isn't the biggest thing in the world and I has happy to take a long walk on Grand Manan. I think every car that passed stopped and asked if I needed a ride. The smoke from the fish operation was delicious but unhappily the fish weren't ready yet. That was in the early '70s. I wonder if those little islands are still so insular.