To: Fiji Hill
Not sure about Ben Franklin, but Southern Partisan magazine made a case that George Washington spoke with a Southern drawl, y'all.I'm certain he had the same accent as his contemporary fellow-Virginians, but isn't Virginia too far north to have a drawl spoken there?
140 posted on
06/05/2013 5:35:59 PM PDT by
Zionist Conspirator
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To: Zionist Conspirator
When I was down in the Norfolk-Williamsburg area in Eastern Virginia, I certainly heard the Southern accent.
To: Zionist Conspirator
I'm certain he had the same accent as his contemporary fellow-Virginians, but isn't Virginia too far north to have a drawl spoken there?
Good point. There would be aspects of what we now call a "Southern drawl" and of British English, but trying to get at the sound of it would be difficult. Chesapeake accents were quite different from what we now call a Southern accent.
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06/05/2013 5:44:18 PM PDT by
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