From: Steven Cox (scox@ns1.chinaonline.com.cn.net)
Date: Fri Jan 09 1998 - 21:32:17 EST
Sorry!
The Black Country is part of the English Midlands,
(from which I am in exile). It became known by that
name because of the soot from the pottery industry
during the 18th Century, and doesn't have any racial
connotations! Like most regional dialects it has
probably now been killed by BBC English.
Hope that hasn't offended anyone :-O
Steven
At 20:34 98/01/09 -0000, you wrote:
>Steven,
>
>For the benefit of our US list members, you had better explain the
>reference to "Black-country" dialect, as a term referring to the way
>natives of the UK Midlands speak! If may create an entirely different
>notion in the mind of those of us on the other side of the great divide.
>
>Paul F. Evans
>Pastor
>Thunder Swamp Pentecostal Holiness Church
>MT. Olive, NC
>
>WebPage: http://ww2.esn.net/~evans
>E-mail: evans@esn.net
>
>
>
>
>----------
>> From: Steven Cox <scox@ns1.chinaonline.com.cn.net>
>> To: Eric Weiss <eweiss@gte.net>; Biblical Greek <b-greek@virginia.edu>
>> Subject: Re: Translations
>> Date: Friday, January 09, 1998 2:51 PM
>>
>> While we are having some fun...
>> Erics mail below reminded me of a Gospel of Mark in Black
>> Country dialect my father used to have on his shelves.
>>
>> Apart from the tongue of the Potteries I've also clapped
>> eyes on Gospels in broad Yorkshire and no doubt somewhere
>> there'll be similar in Scouse, Cockney, Geordie, and
>> Glaswegian lurking around somewhere.
>> S.
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