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Show Retain Much of Danish Speech. John Ackworth, an English dialect novelist who has made a special study of the dialects of Lancashire, Yorkshire, York-shire, tho east coasts and nlso of the Danes, shows that tho Danes by their early landings and sojournings In England have Influenced tho language of the east coasts of Britain to an extraordinary ex-traordinary degree, nnd thnt tho Danes and the British, in spite of apparent ap-parent differences, are one practically In speech and language as well as In the relationship of blood. "So strong is tho English of tho east coasts of England Impregnated with Danish," John Ackworth once snld, "that I am euro that if a fisherman from tho cast coasts of England were to bo wrecked on tho shores of Denmark, and he would only speak In his truo native dialect, that fisherman would be ablo to mako himself understood." |