Goede Dag, Archie,
I never heard of the Regency shorthand system. Is it simpler than the others?
I am interested in joining this Flying Dutchmen club, as I am also a Dutchman (geboren in Alkmaar in 1947). Can you tell me a bit more about it?
My mother was Fries, and I can understand it, read it, but not talk it--strange but true. Have you noticed the vowels sound are close to English? Even some of the words are identical or nearly so, such as tjies and cheese. My mother had no problem learning English, but my father never learned it properly, though (and here it gets arcane) he could speak fluent Frisian!
He hid at my mother's parents house during the war.
hatelyke groeten,
henk de graaf