In a message dated 1/13/06 10:11:15 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 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?) > > One of those to make this claim was Cecil J. Sharp in his "English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians." Sharp gathered his material between 1916 and 1918, before the area was influenced by new accents introduced by the radio. Sharp may have been influenced by the fact that many inhabitants of the area still used the familiar tense in everyday conversation -- "thou art," etc. Peter Danner -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
