Them pilgrims. The reason the word is cited is that William Bradford in his chronicle and also in his poetry referred to them as pilgrims. Not uppercase, big p, famous pilgrims, but as pilgrims, people who went on a journey for religious reasons, went on a journey for personal discovery. And so that use of the word pilgrim gives them a group identity, but we all need to remember they themselves did not have a group identity. They were a very heterogeneous group that had to learn to live together. When you think about how did people sound in colonial new england, aboard mayflower and the first few ships that would follow, there were upwards of 17 different dialect regions represented in plymouth and they lived in an age prior to recording. Very rarely, unless you were in a big city, did you hear anybody speak english in a way other than your own dialect or accent. Imagine what it is like to be aboard ship with people that you are trying to figure out, what is she saying to me . Because
Religious reasons, went on a journey for personal discovery. So that use of the word pilgrims gives them a group identity, but we all need to remember they themselves did not have a group identity. They were a very heterogeneous group that had to learn to live together. When you think about how did people sound in colonial new england, aboard mayflower and the first few ships that would follow, there were upwards of 17 different dialect regions represented in plymouth that plymouth and they lived in an age prior to recording. Very rarely, unless you were in a big city, did you hear anybody speak english in a way other than your own dialect or accent. Imagine what it is like to be aboard a ship with people, you are trying to figure out, what is she saying to me . Accustomed to are watching television to get our news, to have a newscasters accent. We are accustomed to hearing people speak differently than ourselves. Wasnt always the case back in the 1600s. There are Vocabulary Words and
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County cumberland, even that isnt actually verifying as precipitation. Just what we call ground clutter. Sometimes the radar just that strong. Pick up on things that arent actually rain or precipitation of any kind. It can even pink up flocks of birds flying through. It is amazing just how strong the radar censors can be. That said, bottom line, you got no wet weather issues, so starting things off on nice clear note, now that the suns starting to pop beautiful color being streamed across our skyline. Comfort index remember, talking dew point, a lot this week. The dew point measuring the moisture in the air. And there is not very much of it. So, with dew points as low as they are at 55 degrees, right on target, for that comfort index to be what were calling pleasant very, very nice day outside, very nice start to the day, too. Current temperature readings are generally in the 50s, 60s, even cooler up in the mountains, at 49 degrees. That is actually kind of like sweatshirt weather. Dep