Re: When someone from Britain speaks, Americans hear a "British accent"...

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:14:26 -0000,
        Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> wrote:
>> cool because you have to bet a lot of money. Anyway, if you
>> insist on making distinctions between the backwoods of
>> apalachia and european aristocracy,
>
> What, you think they sound the same?

I think that backwoods American speech is more archaic, and therefore is
possibly closer to historical European speech. Susan Cooper uses this as a
minor plot point in her juvenile novel "King of Shadows", which is about a
20th-century Southern kid who goes back to Elizabethan times and ends up
acting with Shakespeare; his accent ensures that he doesn't sound *too*
strange in 16th-century London.

--amk
Received on Thu Sep 29 16:38:49 2005