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To: ThanhPhero
The Appalaichian dialect is probably Elizabethan remnants but that's like Cockney as representative of modern English. It is, more or less. The appalaichian sounds come from the uneducated portion of Elizabethan English and was/is not the zenith of anything.

Oops! Watch out for the neo-Confederates!

37 posted on 06/04/2004 11:57:56 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (I'm a Noachide . . . if **everyone** doesn't hate me, I'm not doing my job! :-))
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To: Zionist Conspirator

It was not the educated classes that settled Appalachia.


48 posted on 06/07/2004 6:38:40 AM PDT by ThanhPhero (Ong lam hanh huong di La Vang)
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