Posted on 12/31/2009 11:04:42 AM PST by don-o
Olde English spoken with a Scottish accent? LOL
His favorite tale involved him helping them stake tomatoes early one summer, had to be in the early 50's. They were having trouble setting the stakes, and my dad blurted out "well why don'tcha just whang 'atair stob with a mattock." The Rhode Island folks laughed themselves silly, and made him say it over and over again.
He kept in touch with those people for most of his life. His friend had a very showy old Packard back then, when it was just an old car and not something of extreme value. They rode around to various seaside resorts in it, had a big old time, lots of old photos.
LOL
“Hose pipe.”
Dirt bag!
Did you know the Disciples traveled in a Honda?
They were all in one “accord”.
My relatives in Indiana ALL say this. And my little sister, who grew up in San Diego!!!
Glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I read your post!
Keep in mind, Cedar Island would have been settled first and the language would have been carried west with the settlers... so “yours” is the spinoff. LOL
OTOH, hey cuz! LOL
My mother: "Throw me down the stairs my hat."
Me (in first grade): Baaeeeeyyg. I couldn't say "bag". Just "bag."
I can’t cast aspersions, since my local dialect was/is:
dudd’n = doesn’t
wudd’n = wouldn’t
cutt’n = couldn’t
It’s just a hop, skip and a jump to the black dialect “di-in” from there, and likely springs from the same source, since it’s in the old plantation belt, with several of the big old Hairston places along the Dan.
In the Appalachians, you’d get “didun” instead.
I don’t know what we have against final Ts.
[or: “Ahdanowuhwegawagin finalties”]
Poor “ain’t” ain e’en gotun.
:D
this is best post of the year....these silly girls on the networks, all appear to be unable to open their mouth and speak....they speak through pursed lips, which sounds like a 2 year old talking.....
I have wondered about this many times, as it often seems possible to tell if a voice you hear comes from a black person, and this also often seems to be independent of the level of education.
I considered the possibility that there was a physical reason, but I have also noticed that I cannot usually identify British-born black people by their voices. So my current conclusion is that this voice sound is learned. The typical black voice in this country has a little bit of southern in it. And I think that this has a lot to do with the great migration of southern blacks to northern cities. The common voice sounds are then learned by very young children and passed down through the generations.
Many Southern speech patterns, both black and white, can be traced to variant usages in England. It was common for settlers in a colony, whether mainland America, the Caribbean, or Africa, to be from the same part of England.
An even more interesting history is variants of English mixing with variants of Spanish and with native languages in Central and South America.
Charles Payne, who substituted for Glenn Beck this week, has said that he was beat up for “speaking correct English” or “speaking white.” Speaking correctly in that environment can be harmful to your health, apparently.
My Dad would say, “Let your voice drop, that was a statement,” and my Mom would say, “Always be positive, even if you’re wrong.” I work very hard to train that “eternal question” out of my children’s speech.
You found the decoder ring in a bag of pork rinds, didn’t you?
Well, "high risk theater" could definitely work too. :-)
Historically, it depends on *which* “clearance” we’re talking about.
During the Cromwell crap, my kin were thrown out in the Philly ports and went southwest into the mountains.
During other “get out, ya damn red-legs!” events, the ships often went to southern ports.
Same exact thing, being deposited in two places.
My father’s mother was from the later southern lot and his father’s people were from the PA Cromwell Cruise Lines gang planks.
Through the centuries, one line moved continually southwest while the other went northwest up into WV and lo and behold, caused me to exist!
LOL!
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