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The part that I deleted was the most interesting thing I have said to anyone in many weeks but I deleted it because I felt like I had gotten too excited and gone off topic. But if you ever go there, you are not going to believe your own ears.

To everyone else, I was talking about my experience in the isolated areas of the Appalachian Mountains in Tennessee and Kentucky in hearing English from over 200 years ago, the kind of English that has comepletely disappeared in England itself as England is too small and flat for the fossilization of language to occur. It has occured in Japan because, unlike in England, it has many mountain ranges and major rivers that kept people from moving around freely for centuries before the age of railroads and highways. (Looks like I got excited again and put it all back on here.)
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I really have no ideas why people say what they say. I've been to Kansai many times but have never stayed there for more than a few days at a time. As you know, however, language is always full of exceptions. One finds exceptions most often in frequently-used words. 配る may just be one of those words. If you carefully looked at the romaji verbs I listed, though, you would have noticed that I purposely didn't include 配る because I myself wasn't sure if I've heard it pronounced くぼった or くぼーた. For the rest of that list, I hear them in the past tense all the time on TV so I listed them with confidence.