ext_223708 ([identity profile] msstacy13.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] ysabetwordsmith 2011-02-16 06:59 pm (UTC)

Oh, another sort of related thing-
in the 1892 preface to The Hoosier School-Master,
Edward Eggleston mentioned that a specific dialect could be heard
anywhere Scots-Irish immigrants settled in the US;
even two or three generations later,
there were enclaves in South Carolina, Indiana, and Pennsylvania
where people spoke with the same accent as one another,
but unlike the accents other people around them.

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