Date:  Sun, 7 Dec 1997 19:33:19 -0500 (EST)
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 01:43:45 +0200 (EET)
From: Tapani Salminen <tasalmin@drv.cbc.com>
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To: John Cowan <cowan@scotty.sys.drv.cbc.com>
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Dear John,

Thanks for your comments.

>       English proper is spoken in Scotland.
>       High German proper is spoken in Switzerland.

True. The languages in my lists refer to autochthonous/indigenous
(whatever that means) languages of the areas. At the moment, this is not
expressed clearly but I will try to update my pages as soon as possible.

Best wishes,
Tapani
http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/ling.html