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To: SeekAndFind

When I moved to Tidewater Virginia years ago there was a guy who needed a translator. He spoke English but used an Elizabethan grammar and accent.

Plants were “plunts”. Stance was “stonce”, etc.

Later in life I learned that’s how people talked in the 1600’s as the colonies originally started.

You’ll hear this also in North Carolina.


4 posted on 01/12/2025 7:50:09 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy

Some pockets of Canada, too.


33 posted on 01/12/2025 10:35:13 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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"When I moved to Tidewater Virginia years ago there was a guy who needed a translator. He spoke English but used an Elizabethan grammar and accent."

This is most obvious when speaking to a waterman.

43 posted on 01/13/2025 4:54:33 AM PST by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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