On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:14:26 -0000, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2005-06-28, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think James Bond did it for Americans. He always wore a >> dinner jacket and played a lot of backarack--which is only >> 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? As a recent transplant to Appalachia, I have heard that some linguists speculate that because of the region's cultural isolation, perhaps the locals here do actually speak as they did (and as their ancestors in England did) a few hundred years ago. Regards, Dan -- Dan Sommers <http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
