Re: Howdy


"The Highlander" <micheil@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 21:16:16 +0100, Bryn
<Scotland-the-Brave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Doh!
Language has always been a focus of interest
on this (scs) newsgroup. Scots has been discussed,
and Gaelic too, as well as English.

But I don't recall in the last couple of years at
least, any focus on American English.

I have often wondered how the American accent
developed (ok, I know there are many American accents),
but there must be, I think a singular origin to that which
most of have heard and know to be 'American English'

Any takers.

Glenallan
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Sword of Justice, Imperial Battle Flag.
and Banner of Freedom....today.


It has been suggested that it was inherited from Bristol seamen.. And it
is the nearest thing to Elizabethan English...


One of the URLs I was unable to find was a map of the US with each
dialect assigned to a part of England as the original source.

Once you get south of the Mason-Dixon line, (the southern states) the
local accents mostly seem to have originated in Scotland and Northern
Ireland, although in Appalachia, many of the family names are clearly
English..

Appalachia, an area roughly the size of the UK, covers mostly
mountainous, often isolated areas from the border of Mississippi and
Alabama in the south to Pennsylvania and New York in the north.

Appalachia also includes parts of the states of Georgia, South
Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio,
Maryland, and the entire state of West Virginia.

And a vast preserve of Scots/Irish song and tradition.
A hard bitten lot, those Scots/Irish what came down the Appalachian chain
from Pennsylvania.
They would have given the Royal Marines nightmares.




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