Re: dialectal diversity in English

--- Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>
wrote:
> ["moUs.t 7 DIm tV"b&ki 4ItS foUks frVm
> "nar`Tk&r`"lajn7 "maj;tVz wEl bI
> "b&:gVrz] [Dej sVr &int "s7DnVr`z]
You know, I hadn't thought of that before.  While I
don't know what the Walkers farmed back in North
Carolina before the War, I do know that they farmed
tobacco in Missouri *after* the War.  When the Sapps
and Walkers moved to Texas they mostly farmed cotton,
but there was *still* some tobacco growing in their
fields which the womenfolk seemed to have been
especially partial to.  So you may have just hit on a
bit of my family history that I relly ought to follow
up.

I've been able to give my dad a couple of nasty shocks
doing research on his tree.  First there were the
Comptons and McConnells from Pensylvania (the first
Yankees we found) but they married into an old
Southern branch (which is part of the family Dad never
cared for anyhow) then I found the Remys were
pantywaists (read Frenchmen) further back on that same
branch, then to top it all we found his own
grandfather and great-grandfather *fighting* for the
Yankees!  It's been rather hilarious.

Adam

Adam

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