Caroline Usher wrote: >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?) > > > You might be interested in this link: http://www.missouristate.edu/folksong/MaxHunter/
British Isles immigrants who wound up in the Ozarks of Missouri and Arkansas are recorded singing their traditional songs. The songs were recorded by Max Hunter between 1956 and 1976. This is more south central to south west Missouri. Like areas of Appalachia, the Ozark Hills (oldest mountains in the USA, weathered down to hills, with some Pre-Cambrian rocks exposed on the southeast side) didn't have much economic activity after the original forests were logged in the early 1900s, and has become a pocket where time slows down. "The Other" Stephen Stubbs To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
