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According to this:

http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.htm

the thing about Ring around the Rosie is an urban lengend.

--John

I've noticed those changes in Southern pronunciation before, but she transforms her retroflexes as well, zh->z sh->s ch->c, which I've not heard before much. Will a Southern accent do that? I think my Daoism prof does it too, and she learned more in Taiwan and northern mainland than the South, IIRC....

I've noticed the (extremely annoying) female Taiwanese accent before, but I hadn't heard that about mainland female speech before. I bet that's why Anna in my Classical speech talks like that. She's a native speaker from Singpore and ta mama si song Zongguo lai de... (If you can't speak Chinese, tha...

I remember someone mentioning how the English possessive -'s can attach to a noun phrase ('I found [the man who stole my car]'s wallet'; ambiguous, but oh well); Basque does this type of thing frequently: liburu a irakurri dut - I read the book But: [liburu interesgarri] a - (the) interesting book ...