That you are truly a renaissance man!And yet, I knew exactly what it meant! What does that say about me??
Don is from West Virginia way up in the mountains, and not so much anymore, but back in the day people would detect a slight accent and always guess he was from England. The Kennedys lived up in the middle of nowhere since getting off the boat from Ireland, so their speech wasn't effected so much by the locals as other locations.
Maybe, but keep in mind, Appalachia alone had many different dialects and pronunciations, as does England x 20! In St Mary’s County in Md, some of the old retired watermen still have traces of a dialect that can be traced back to a specific section of London where the first settlers came from in the 1600’s. Regional dialects have been dying since cable/satellite tv, and even more rapidly w/ the internet. But not long ago, English dialects were much more vast than here in the US. The differences we see between Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, etc could be separated by sections of London alone! Same in Germany. The differences between Berlin and Munich are much bigger than the difference between Boston and San Antonio, and Berlin to Munich is only a 4 1/2 hr drive! Heck, they often use completely different words or don’t even spell some words the same.
I once told him that Australians must just be English rednecks. He said I wasn’t far from the truth.
Must be all about growing up in the LA area, because I also knew exactly what it meant!And yet, I knew exactly what it meant! What does that say about me??
Good point about various dialects. There are very different "Britishish" dialects, for example, in the mountains of North Carolina and Coastal North Carolina ("High Tiders").Maybe, but keep in mind, Appalachia alone had many different dialects and pronunciations, as does England x 20! In St Mary’s County in Md, some of the old retired watermen still have traces of a dialect that can be traced back to a specific section of London where the first settlers came from in the 1600’s. Regional dialects have been dying since cable/satellite tv, and even more rapidly w/ the internet. But not long ago, English dialects were much more vast than here in the US. The differences we see between Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, etc could be separated by sections of London alone! Same in Germany. The differences between Berlin and Munich are much bigger than the difference between Boston and San Antonio, and Berlin to Munich is only a 4 1/2 hr drive! Heck, they often use completely different words or don’t even spell some words the same.
Many years ago we used to play a club in NC whose owner/mgr was from England. He’d been in the US for close to 20 yrs and his accent sounded….Australian!!
Volkswagen (pronounced) "Folks-Vaggin" = Peoples' car. English inherited "folk" (as in 'Hey, folks!' or 'Folk music') from the German Volk. I think Germany may have inherited the Beetle from Ancient Egypt.
If Egyptian theory is true, the car could have wound up named the Volkswagen Scarab.
