Maybe all budding thespians from North Carolina should head off to The Globe to audition.
By far, my favorite Theatre…
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this what you wanted?
I went to the Cable & Wireless College at Porthcurno many many years ago 
I crashed my first car there 
It was my mum’s mini, hadn’t finished paying for it at the time 
Come to think of it, I enjoyed many ‘firsts’ during my time there, and walking up the cliff path from the accommodation block to the Minack wasn’t one that instantly springs to mind…
You DIDN’T!!! 
Your poor mum…I would have been beside myself if you’d crashed my mini (not that I have one, but that’s beside the point). Crashing a mini is practically grounds for excommunication you know 
Thanks Amar. In gratitude I’m officially upgrading you from pink to reddish. 
i always knew it paid to be nice.
I wonder why they say that North Carolinians would understand this? I mean, I know
there are a lot of isolated dialects in the Appalachian mountains… and Flora McDonald
got some of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s supporters to settle in NC… Hm.
I’ll have to go see this sometime…
Or maybe they just started reciting, and realized they sound like a bunch of dumb-ass
hillbillies
Or maybe they just started reciting, and realized they sound like a bunch of dumb-ass
hillbillies
Watch it now…thems fightin’ words… 
edited to add-
I just listened to the reading in both dialects and I must admit I do prefer the second in the older dialect.
I knew that would get someone’s goat 
I was just thinking about how those outside of the southeastern US might
characterize NC…
I agree. And it seems to have more of a Scottish lilt (at least to me).
Perhaps they’re right, we appalachian types might understand this more easily.
I seem to recall reading years ago that southern American accents have their roots in Elizabethan English accents.
Best wishes,
Jerry
If you ever happen to remember where that was, I’d love to read it, Jerry.
There have been hundreds (perhaps thousands) of theses, dissertations and books written on this subject. A quick google search for “appalachian elizabethan english” (without the quotes) should turn up plenty. Here are a couple to get you started:
[u]Our Southern Highlanders[/u], chapter 13 (The Mountain Dialect); by Horace Kephart, 1913.
[u]The Dialect of The Appalachian People[/u], by Wylene P. Dial, 1969.
And this list should keep you busy for years: [u]Annotated Bibliography on Appalachian English[/u].
Cheers,
John
I wasn’t born here, but I’ll stand with you anyway, cowtime…just because. 
That would be a silly fight, since I was born here.
Of course, I was born in Charlotte, otherwise I myself would be a hillbilly, rather than just a dumb-ass.
Heh. I spent enough time at my grandparents’ place in Avery Co., NC, to learn that there are actually very few hillbillies who are also dumb-asses. Uneducated, perhaps, but not dumb. And you really don’t want to piss 'em off! (Ever heard the Mike Cross song “Mountain Mean”?)
Thanks. I figured it was a combination of Scots-Irish immegration and mountainous
isolation, but I hadn’t realized it went back all the way to Elizabethan.
Yeah, us terrier types have never been known to back down from a good sparring match. 