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   Linguistic Peculiarities
   While English is the dominant language, the dialect spoken throughout much of Central and East Texas is marked by an unusual retention of archaic verb forms traceable to 17th-century Elizabethan English, a linguistic quirk attributed to the state's early, geographically isolated settlement patterns. For instance, the …