Re: American dialect of Brithenig

[John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>]

Padraic Brown scripsit:

> Aeroplanes are curiosities ruminated on
> by the military (RAF) or are the domain of a few rich (but idiotic and
> shortlived)  barnstormers (After all, who would want to go up in the air
> in something that doesn't naturally float!?).

I believe that aeroplanes are in fact in use by the military: if not
as bombers, at least as fast couriers.  As in the alternate America
of *The Two Georges*, sometimes the need for speed dominates all else.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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