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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:
> Thank you for part two of your lecture on continuity. Question:
When
> will the Anglophonians make the observation they no longer speak
> English and take appropriate action?
The observation can be dated to the 1900's - Simplified Spelling
Board (1906), and the Simplified Spelling Society (1908). I don't
know when American actors started treating Shakespeare's works as
written in a foreign tongue. The US has its own spelling rules.
Would you treat the use of 'on account of' as a conjunction as
a 'creole effect', as in the American English sentence 'I won't do
it on account of I'm too tired to.'? Such constructions seem
American to me (an Englishman), but I doubt that they're accepted as
grammatical.
Richard.