When someone from Britain speaks, Americans hear a "British accent"...

[Dan Sommers]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:14:26 -0000,
Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:

> On 2005-06-28, James Stroud <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote:
>> I think James Bond did it for Americans. He always wore a
>> dinner jacket and played a lot of backarack--which is only
>> cool because you have to bet a lot of money. Anyway, if you
>> insist on making distinctions between the backwoods of
>> apalachia and european aristocracy,

> What, you think they sound the same?

As a recent transplant to Appalachia, I have heard that some linguists
speculate that because of the region's cultural isolation, perhaps the
locals here do actually speak as they did (and as their ancestors in
England did) a few hundred years ago.

Regards,
Dan

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Dan Sommers
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