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By: Alfia Wallace

Fascinating.  Tristan de Cunha’s founding population also included Dutch and Italian forefathers. The first Europeans who settled Queens, NYC were Dutch and English, then predominantly Irish and...

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By: Asya Pereltsvaig

Thank you for sharing this fascinating stuff, Alfia! It’s amazing to see how the same phenomena (“them parties” or non-rhoticity or whatever) pop up in various kinds of English around the world,...

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By: Alfia Wallace

I’ll demonstrate it for you sometime.  

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By: Peter

St. Helena’s isolation will be lessened when an airport opens in a few years.  Construction just began a couple of months ago.  Whether the island’s improved transport links will have any effect on its...

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By: Asya Pereltsvaig

Looking forward to it.

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By: Asya Pereltsvaig

Thanks for sharing this, Peter!

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