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To: Vigilanteman

I think the article is a bit simple—I am sure the Boston accent was different than the Virginian. I think the colonials had there own brand of English and it was nothing like what we speak today—same goes for the English. Its all just speculation.


66 posted on 10/09/2010 9:35:50 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

I think the accent from the area of Farmington Maine has the a pure and undiluted older New England accent. Not too many of them left alive


169 posted on 10/10/2010 6:56:37 PM PDT by Chickensoup (There is a group of people who suck off the productive. They make rules then find infractions.)
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