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English on the Mayflower

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Martyn Wakelin
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Abstract

When the Pilgrim Fathers left Plymouth in 1620 they took with them not just their genes and their ideas but also the local dialects that they spoke. Can their styles of speech be reconstructed, much as the original ‘Plimoth Plantation’ has recently been reconstructed?

Type
Special Features
Information
English Today , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , October 1986 , pp. 30 - 33
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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