[AT] OT don't take any Buffalo Nickels

[John Maddock]

James wrote:

"Harry Ferguson came from an area of
Europe that supplied one of those immigration streams."

I don't think that is strictly correct. Ferguson was an Ulsterman, a
resident of Northern Ireland, whereas I understand that the mass migration
(and thus the language influence) was from Eire (southern Ireland).

JV


> I listen to the NPR radio station locally and in the other places I have
> lived. Do not take that as a political statement. I simply hear things
> discussed that I do not hear elsewhere. I have heard them discuss a
> shadowy intelligence sharing process conducted among the countries of US,
> UK, Canada, Australia, and NZ. That probably requires some language
> standardization.
>
> Elsewhere I heard of a broadcasting organization that was working to
> standardize broadcast English worldwide. Someone once told me that English
> is used as the language of Air Traffic Control worldwide.
>
> The book “Albion’s Seed” discusses four dialect variations of
> English brought to America and established as regional dialects. Harry
> Ferguson came from an area of Europe that supplied one of those
> immigration streams.
>
> Ralph Goff in Saskatchewan AT List Member (alfg at sasktel.net); Although
> people use the term "buffalo" on our plains bison, it is a misnomer
> according to Wikipedia and Britannica.
> https://www.britannica.com/story/whats-the-difference-between-bison-and-buffalo
>
> James AT List Member (jamesgpeck at hotmail.com); Bison is the French word
> for the animal. Using Bison as the English word also makes things much
> easier in a bilingual English/French country.
> Â 
> https://en.bab.la/dictionary/english-french/bison
>
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