On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:14:26 -0000,
Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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?
I think that backwoods American speech is more archaic, and therefore is
possibly closer to historical European speech. Susan Cooper uses this as a
minor plot point in her juvenile novel "King of Shadows", which is about a
20th-century Southern kid who goes back to Elizabethan times and ends up
acting with Shakespeare; his accent ensures that he doesn't sound *too*
strange in 16th-century London.
--amk
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