Re: Euwww, English Again! :-)

[John Francis Stracke <francis@tigana.microserve.com>]

> >Actually, m'lady, I think it was the *Irish*  who stole the Welsh
> >vowels.  Take a look at a sentence in Gaelic sometime - you will see that

> Then, of course, there is the theory that absolves all implicated parties of
> theft by postulating that the vowels departed of themselves in search of a
> better climate

Nah.  It's just normal gravity separation--consonants are heavier than vowels, 
so the consonants fall south and displace the vowels.  :-)

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