North Carolina?!?!?
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North Carolina?!?!?
Maybe all budding thespians from North Carolina should head off to The Globe to audition.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4694993.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4694993.stm
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This is my favourite and I'll be there next Monday.
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I went to the Cable & Wireless College at Porthcurno many many years ago
I crashed my first car there It was my mum's mini, hadn't finished paying for it at the time Come to think of it, I enjoyed many 'firsts' during my time there, and walking up the cliff path from the accommodation block to the Minack wasn't one that instantly springs to mind...
I crashed my first car there It was my mum's mini, hadn't finished paying for it at the time Come to think of it, I enjoyed many 'firsts' during my time there, and walking up the cliff path from the accommodation block to the Minack wasn't one that instantly springs to mind...
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You DIDN'T!!! Your poor mum...I would have been beside myself if you'd crashed my mini (not that I have one, but that's beside the point). Crashing a mini is practically grounds for excommunication you knowGaryKelly wrote:I crashed my first car there It was my mum's mini,
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Re: North Carolina?!?!?
I wonder why they say that North Carolinians would understand this? I mean, I knowjbarter wrote:Maybe all budding thespians from North Carolina should head off to The Globe to audition.
there are a lot of isolated dialects in the Appalachian mountains... and Flora McDonald
got some of Bonnie Prince Charlie's supporters to settle in NC... Hm.
I'll have to go see this sometime...
Or maybe they just started reciting, and realized they sound like a bunch of dumb-ass
hillbillies
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Watch it now.......thems fightin' words........Or maybe they just started reciting, and realized they sound like a bunch of dumb-ass
hillbillies
edited to add-
I just listened to the reading in both dialects and I must admit I do prefer the second in the older dialect.
"Let low-country intruder approach a cove
And eyes as gray as icicle fangs measure stranger
For size, honesty, and intent."
John Foster West
And eyes as gray as icicle fangs measure stranger
For size, honesty, and intent."
John Foster West
I knew that would get someone's goatcowtime wrote:Watch it now.......thems fightin' words........Or maybe they just started reciting, and realized they sound like a bunch of dumb-ass
hillbillies
I was just thinking about how those outside of the southeastern US might
characterize NC...
I agree. And it seems to have more of a Scottish lilt (at least to me).cowtime wrote:I just listened to the reading in both dialects and I must admit I do prefer the second in the older dialect.
Perhaps they're right, we appalachian types might understand this more easily.
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There have been hundreds (perhaps thousands) of theses, dissertations and books written on this subject. A quick google search for "appalachian elizabethan english" (without the quotes) should turn up plenty. Here are a couple to get you started:fearfaoin wrote:If you ever happen to remember where that was, I'd love to read it, Jerry.Jerry Freeman wrote:I seem to recall reading years ago that southern American accents have their roots in Elizabethan English accents.
Our Southern Highlanders, chapter 13 (The Mountain Dialect); by Horace Kephart, 1913.
The Dialect of The Appalachian People, by Wylene P. Dial, 1969.
And this list should keep you busy for years: Annotated Bibliography on Appalachian English.
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