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Originally posted by DC_DEEP@Sep 16 2005, 08:55 AM
And my final note - the hillbilly accents, especially from the Ozarks and to some degree from the Appalachians, seem to get the most negative responses from people of other areas in this country. The interesting part is that these dialects appear to be the last remaining vestiges of the English language from the Shakespearean era. Creature=critter, victuals (food)=vittles, the list goes on... these pronunciations were common, proper, and accepted in London at the time.
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I saw a show about the Appalachian dialect on PBS a few years back and how the speech patterns, and even some of their words, were, in fact, directly traceable to English usage at the time that people came to that area from England/Scotland/Ireland back in the 18th century. It was fascinating to see how they traced the folk language, poetry and music back to Britain and the Scots-Irish settlers. I guess because they are so remote that they just didn't have the influences of the city culture and have the changes over the years.