10 Jun
2012
10 Jun
'12
10:16 a.m.
On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 07:38:02PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
At a glance it would seem English is closer to Scots than Dutch, at least according to Wikipedia. The Scots article indicates it falls into the "is this a dialect or a language" grey area.
Yep, and even if you discount Scots for that reason, (West) Frisian is closer to English than Dutch is.
I was amused when flicking through scots.wikipedia pages to hear myself phonetically basically pronouncing out English with a heavy Scottish accent. Then again, I did one or twice read and hear Dutch sentences and basically understand the gist of what they were saying. -- Tim Connors