English as spoken in Northern Ireland (long)
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Tue Jun 3 12:17:43 CEST 2003
At 08:29 -0400 2003-06-03, John Hanna wrote:
> In my home-town "I doubt it will rain" means, bizarrely, "I believe it will
> rain", but that doesn't exist even a few miles away from there
Really? That's very interesting. Perhaps, as a native speaker, you
know something about Hiberno-English after all, despite what one
person has claimed on this forum.
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