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Date Posted: 12:11:05 07/22/06 Sat
Author: O'Bruadair
Author Host/IP: max6-tcl-168-109.dbtech.net / 208.24.168.109
Subject: This not a list of "Southernisms" at all!
In reply to: Pat Keadle 's message, "Re: Can you translate Southern?" on 09:00:31 07/15/06 Sat

Well thar Pat, ye done purdy good. Ye diddin git zactly all of em (Ye missed leb'm. It's that number betwixt ten and twelve)

The surprising thing is though this is not a list of "Southernisms" at all. These come from the "Somerset dictionary". Somerset is a county in southwestern England (one county over from Cornwall and just across the Bristol Channel from Wales).

These are in fact words from the "West Country Dialect". Linguists think that this dialect is descended directly from "Old English" and is thus a true dialect and not a corruption of "the Queen's English" at all.

If you visit the site you will probably find more that you recognise though you probably won't recognise them all.

Now we have always been taught that the Southern manner of speech was a result of nothing but ignorance, poverty and isolation.

Is anyone besides me starting to question "conventional wisdom" on the subject?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/somerset/content/articles/2005/01/20/somerset_a_to_m_glossary.shtml

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