On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:14:26 -0000, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list