Posted on 10/09/2010 8:08:47 AM PDT by prisoner6
“I’m a lifelong Michigan redneck. This is where my roots are and this is where I’ll die. Don’t ask me to leave because I’m too happy to play the role of bleeding hemmoroid on the butt of the liberals of this state. Its the greatest place in the world and I’m not giving it up.”
I like your attitude!
Actually, I almost flunked Latin in High School,lol!
I find him a total bore on both fronts! But then I’ve been forced to sit through a lot of Shaw...to me just a yakky old man.
Don’t say that too loudly. Them’s fightin’ words.
Seriously though, most Texans consider themselves Texans first, Southern second and American third.
Ain’t that the way you’re spose’d to say it? LOL!
Yes, we are a bit of a Heinz 57....part Celtic; part Anglo-Saxon; part Viking.
Never truly appreciated the beauty of Northumberland till I moved away...same with lots of folks I suppose.
FRegards,
“Glad you liked my home county.
Yes, we are a bit of a Heinz 57....part Celtic; part Anglo-Saxon; part Viking.”
My family, the Sheffields, had always thought were were the ultimate Anglo - Saxons until we did DNA tests on many of our male family members. The results showed that we were actually descended from Vikings that had settled in England.
But I’m mostly Scots-Irish (due to intermarraige) or as you would say Ulster-Irish.
Maybe, but the last Bush presidency demonstrates that swagger alone isn’t enough.
I think the accent from the area of Farmington Maine has the a pure and undiluted older New England accent. Not too many of them left alive
Ain’t that the way you’re spose’d to say it? LOL!
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Yup, that’s right and the beauty is we still understand each other. I love the twang and drawl. Someone should write a C&W song about that alone.
Re Ressians, years ago when we lived in NJ, my father told me of a group of people living on the north Jersey/PA or NY border called the Jackson “Whites”. He said these were AWOL Hessian soldiers who hid in the back woods and ended up marrying/? Indians and escaped/owned? Black slaves.
Family history, my grandfather was a marine engineer in Bismarck’s navy. Apparently he did not like what he felt was the direction of Bismark’s policies, so he and my grandmother emigrated to the US, probably later 1880s. Here he served as chief engineer on several major ocean liners, and in WW1 had an important role in converting a big liner into a troop carrier. Bismarck may have kept peace for 40 years, but his aftermath resulted in the horrible bloodbath of WW1, which then resulted in WW2. Rather ironic that my grandfather in leaving what he thought was a bad situation, acted against it decades later.
That may explain some of the stagings I’ve seen of Shakepeare’s plays.
Bismarck also gave us the welfare state. As German Chancellor he wanted to head off the socialists’ calls for nationalization of industry. His idea was to found a welfare state provided health care, accident insurance and pensions if the socialists would leave the ownership of industry in the hands of the industrialists, his allies.
Yes, the source of the American accent is based on various regional accents in England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Some of those regional elements still exist in the UK but they are not “BBC English”, so people don’t think of them as an “English accent”. What’s also interesting is that using “aks”/”ax” for “ask” can be found in Old English as well as Chaucer’s Middle English (it can be found in The Canterbury Tales).
You were in that typing class too?
The Remington's kicked ass, Underwoods were scrap metal, imo.
...cut and paste... LOL!
When my mom brought home a spare IBM Selectric from her job at McDonnell-Douglas, I was in Heaven (well, sort of) when typing up term papers.
Here is a link to many links of English- both English-English and American-English and a few others too (some Irish, Welsh). I was disappointed with the Lib of Congress’ though...
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