Yup, I read that and several people have mentioned it.  Me, I don't believe it, having heard the accents around there.

As for the melting pot of nationalities, I did once read you almost adopted German as your official language, since there were a lot of German settlers and anti British feeling was very, commonplace.

Funny, when you think about it, since English itself at the root is derived from a couple of proto Germanic languages. 

Coppula eam se non posit acceptera jocularum.

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