Mark A. Mandel wrote: >--- Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> wrote: > > > >>I've read that the closest we will find to how Robin Hood spoke is in the >>back woods of Appalachia. >> >> > >A canard. (Quack, quack!) You can read all sorts of things, many of which will raise your >hackles. > > >-- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, > Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody > a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel > [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.] > > What candidates do you have that you think is closer and why?