American Idiot
Banned
- Messages
- 175
- Reaction score
- 18
- Points
- 0
- Location
- TN
- Ethnic group
- west country English, Scotch-Irish, German
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- R1b-L21
- mtDNA haplogroup
- H
http://youtu.be/XPfOL4wUuMU
short clip from a show on the history channel called "you don't know Dixie", very briefly explains some of the British and French regional origins of the American Southern accent/speech patterns.
It shows how:
a) upper-class Englishmen who settled the tidewater areas of the South brought in an aristocratic Londonder/south of England, form of speech and spread it throughout the Deep South.
b) the speech influence of both, Scotch-Irish and west-country English farmers/servants on the Appalachian regions and the upper-south (places like TN,NC,VA,,KY etc..)
c) the speech influence of the French Acadians who came and settled around the Gulf Coast and southern Louisiana. (Cajuns)
this also reflects what author D.H Fischer says in 2 of his books titled ALbion's Seed: 4 British Folkways in America and Bound Away:Virginia and the westward movement.
the author shows how in the 1600's, during the English Civil War, many Royalist Cavaliers and upper class families from the south of England migrated to Virginia along with many indentured servants who would have come mainly from areas such as Somersetshire,Gloucestershire,Wiltshire,Hampshire and what he calls the West Country.
Then, in the 1700's many Ulster-Scots and Anglo-Scottish Border families came to the Southern Appalachian areas. Many former indentured servants from Virginia, who had originally come from the south-west of England, began to migrate into the mountains where they mixed with the Scotch-Irish. The people then spread further west and south.
and of course many French Acadians from Nova Scotia migrated to the Gulf Areas of the south to escape persecution from the British in Canada, becoming Cajuns in the process.
D.H. Fischer seems to think the common speech of southern and south-west England at this time was still influenced by the original speech of the Kingdom of Wessex as this part of England was still very rhotic in the way the people pronounced words, except for the upper-classes.
would like to hear what any European members think about this, especially anyone living in England.
short clip from a show on the history channel called "you don't know Dixie", very briefly explains some of the British and French regional origins of the American Southern accent/speech patterns.
It shows how:
a) upper-class Englishmen who settled the tidewater areas of the South brought in an aristocratic Londonder/south of England, form of speech and spread it throughout the Deep South.
b) the speech influence of both, Scotch-Irish and west-country English farmers/servants on the Appalachian regions and the upper-south (places like TN,NC,VA,,KY etc..)
c) the speech influence of the French Acadians who came and settled around the Gulf Coast and southern Louisiana. (Cajuns)
this also reflects what author D.H Fischer says in 2 of his books titled ALbion's Seed: 4 British Folkways in America and Bound Away:Virginia and the westward movement.
the author shows how in the 1600's, during the English Civil War, many Royalist Cavaliers and upper class families from the south of England migrated to Virginia along with many indentured servants who would have come mainly from areas such as Somersetshire,Gloucestershire,Wiltshire,Hampshire and what he calls the West Country.
Then, in the 1700's many Ulster-Scots and Anglo-Scottish Border families came to the Southern Appalachian areas. Many former indentured servants from Virginia, who had originally come from the south-west of England, began to migrate into the mountains where they mixed with the Scotch-Irish. The people then spread further west and south.
and of course many French Acadians from Nova Scotia migrated to the Gulf Areas of the south to escape persecution from the British in Canada, becoming Cajuns in the process.
D.H. Fischer seems to think the common speech of southern and south-west England at this time was still influenced by the original speech of the Kingdom of Wessex as this part of England was still very rhotic in the way the people pronounced words, except for the upper-classes.
would like to hear what any European members think about this, especially anyone living in England.