On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:58:39PM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote: > If you want > to know what Anglo-Saxon was like, go to the islands off the coast of > Frysia. >
There's an island called Ocrakoke on the NC Outer Banks with a highly unusual accent: (almost) Elizabethan english mixed with a redneck drawl. http://www.bartleby.com/61/53/O0025375.html Some Ocracoke words, such as mommuck ("to harass or bother") and quamish ("sick in the stomach"), date back to at least Shakespeare's day. They are some wierd offshoot of the first people that landed here WAY back in the day. Some people think they are descended from the Lost Colony people. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
