“The Redcoats captured and arrested him on the way. Lucky for us, he wasn’t the only one who’d been sent with that message.”
There were actually two people who were acting as messengers. The two rode a short ways together and happened on an acquaintance who was travelling home. The three were soon spotted by the British. It was the third man, the chance traveller, who escaped and warned the people of Concord and Lexington.
Revere lived in Boston, had access to the newspaper writers and did drawings and had no problem promoting himself as the hero.
“I call it the “First Family of Virginia” accent, and it persevered best there because Virginia had such a concentration of English settlers. It’s unlike any other American accent, very distinctive, very elegant sounding.”
Careful there!!
The northern parts of Virginia had/have quite a different accent from the southern areas.
The northern part of the state had the high concentration of English settlers.
The southern part of the state was settled by forced colonists from Scotland.
My family belonged to one of the clans that was such a PITA to the crown that the English army marched to the highlands, captured them and threw them on ships headed for the colonies.
Some landed in northern North Carolina and some in southern Virginia.
We in central and southern Virginia kept our distinctive accents for another generation or two but my own children, sadly, sound nothing like my wife and I. They still sound “country” but nothing like me.
Do you pronounce “out” in a fashion similar to Canadians?