LL-L "Language varieties" 2004.05.03 (03) [E]

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A=Afrikaans Ap=Appalachian B=Brabantish D=Dutch E=English F=Frisian
L=Limburgish LS=Lowlands Saxon (Low German) N=Northumbrian
S=Scots Sh=Shetlandic V=(West)Flemish Z=Zeelandic (Zeêuws)
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From: Ruth & Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2004.05.01 (02) [E]

Dear All:
    I'm with Michael Montgomery here. I have long heard & read that in the
remoter recesses of the Appalachians a last survival of near-Elisabethan
dialect is still spoken. Now, if that isn't Southern English, then what is?
I do not recall what authorities were cited, but there must have been some
scholarly motivation for this thesis. It is only since my discovery of
L-Lowlands that I have read of any alternatives.
    For my part, Child's ballads collected in that region sound to me
distinctly 'Border'. But what do I know, I'm not a Scholar.
    Yrs,
Mark

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From: Thomas byro <thbyro at earthlink.net>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2004.05.01 (02) [E]

Ron and everyone

My younger son and I share an Apt in upper Manhattan with two other people,
one an actor from North Carolina, Grant Mckeown.  I teased him recently,
asking if he was sure that he was from North Carolina, since his speech
didn't sound southern at all.  I nearly fell on my ass when he responded in
a deep southern drawl.  He explained that sounding southern is a drawback in
getting acting jobs in NYC, so he speaks the way he thinks will make people
happy. As a trained actor, he has no difficulty in doing this.  He said
though that even he has difficulty in understanding some southern dialects
and assumes that this is because the dialects originated in different parts
of the British Iles.  He assumes that the dialect that he grew up with had
its origins in Cockney and then he switched into perfect Cockney.  Has
anyone looked into the origins of the early colonists in the States and
where they settled?  I understand that many Irish and Cockney speakers were
transported to penal colonies.

Tom Byro

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