Finding the UK Close to Home
I just got back from St. John's, Newfoundland, and was intrigued by the accents. Some sounded as though they had been transported wholesale from the north of England. That reminded me how often US regional accents, at least in the eastern part of the country. If you can hear some of the undiluted ones - easier in the case of someplace like Newfoundland and more difficult when areas become homogenized through urban concentration - there are traces of Irish, Scot, English, and Welsh. Although a bit technical in the linguistic sense, here's an article from Wikipedia about this. Now I just need to find a layman's book on the subject.Labels: accents, England, Ireland, New England, Newfoundland, Scotland, Wales
posted by Erik Sherman @ 10:19 AM
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