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  • Vern Humphrey
    Administrator - OFC
    • Aug 2009
    • 15875

    #16
    Originally posted by lyman
    my light Southern Accent sounds like Northern English,,

    according to a clerk in a store in Canterbury,


    I've been reading a diary from a soldier in the Rev War, supposedly a direct copy of his daily writings, coupled with what he wrote years after the war,
    the grammar and style can be hard to read in spots
    In the Ozarks and Appalachians, you encounter some old English -- for example, "Doncie Girl" which dates back to when the English and Spanish were friends. "Feathered into 'em" which dates back to the days of the longbow. The past tense of "Eat" is pronounced "Et" which is the old English pronunciation. In Virginia, "Aunt" is pronounced just like it's spelled, "Awnt."

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    • dogtag
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2009
      • 14985

      #17
      The past tense of eat is still pronounced et (Brit)
      American version is eight.

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      • Roadkingtrax
        Senior Member
        • Feb 2010
        • 7835

        #18
        Originally posted by dogtag
        The past tense of eat is still pronounced et (Brit)
        American version is eight.
        American version is, "I'm still hungry".
        "The first gun that was fired at Fort Sumter sounded the death-knell of slavery. They who fired it were the greatest practical abolitionists this nation has produced." ~BG D. Ullman

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        • togor
          Banned
          • Nov 2009
          • 17610

          #19
          Originally posted by dogtag
          The past tense of eat is still pronounced et (Brit)
          American version is eight.
          "Ate"?

          Would we call this slip a "Trump" or a "Biden"?

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