You can find recordings of varius English regional dialects here: http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/dialects/
I keep hearing that bit about people who still speak "Elizabethan English" in North Carolina, or remote mountains of Appalachia, or somewhere. . . But there's never a source for the assertion (how would they know?) I don't recall _my_ source, but I remember reading in a volume of history that Sir Walter Raleigh spoke with a strong Devon accent all his life, and that there was no standard "court" accent. Caroline Caroline Usher DCMB Administrative Coordinator 613-8155, Box 91000 B343 LSRC To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
