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sacha wrote:

Apparently, some current American forms of speech are olde Englishe and
went over with the Pilgrim Fathers!

Olde Englishe was invented by Tea Shoppes!

More seriously, a lot of their usages are merely preservations
of 17th and 18th century English. An educated English speaker
can understand almost all of educated American, but not conversely.
The New York Yiddish dialect is pretty inscrutable, even to most
Americans, and Ebonics is more so.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.