[Semper Mark]

"There are similarities today between Appalachian speech and dialects of English still spoken in the UK."

I've noticed that too. Heck, some of those English folks speak the language almost as good as we do in East Tennessee. ☺

I also hear a lot of similarities with the Scots and the Irish in the way that they round off their g's the way that we do, e.g. fishin', huntin' and cookin' etc.

[Boonie]

English folks speak the language almost as good as we do in East Tennessee.

Ain’t tat da gospul, Marc???