Re: SCOTISH BRAINSTORMING to launch an IDEAL SCOTISH CIVILIZATION by 2008! Any Scots have any good ideas??


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In Texas presumably, where Bob Wahr rules? (Barbed wire)

Are there no quaint dialects in Britain then?


Yeah, the southwest English dialect. What the Pilgrim Fathers spoke.

Now called American English. Yet another strike out...

Only the one then?

It's probably the only accent that you could describe as 'quaint' yes.
I can reproduce it flawlessly even today as it was the accent I heard in
the rural areas of 'Ampshoir' when I was growing up - though if my Mother
had caught me speaking it (as I sometimes did to avoid getting beaten up
by yokels) I would probably have been given a good thrashing.
It's at it's most pronounced in rural Devon, Somerset and Cornwall though
it's still detectable as far East as Sussex and north to the M4 - I'm not
sure what the accent changes to north of the M4 as I never speak to
anyone from that area.

And heaven forbid that we should EVER classify that assortment of Scottish
growls and coughs as a dialect.

The 'West Country' as it is called hardly has any Scottish influence. I
don't know where the accent came from - possibly from the old Cornish
language but I'm just guessing.
My favourite accent in all England is from around west Somerset - the area
around Bath - as spoken by the young English roses it was my delight to know
way way back when I once worked a late summer camped on an old farm down
that way.
It's a soft lazy burr but with clear strong diction and without that harsh
manglewurzel edge. Nature made it to be murmured in the velvet dark in the
fields at harvest time.

Ah yes, those west country lassies;
[sighs wistfully]

"Auld Nature swear, the lovely dears
Her noblest works she classes, Oh
Her prentice han' she try'd on man
and then she made the lasses, Oh"

R.B.


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