Gregg said:
[In North Carolina] There are still folks who use the terms onest,
twice, thrice in everyday language. I have heard that if you really
want to hear "old English" go to parts of the south...
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Or parts of the North. The Boston accent is reputedly the sound of East
Anglia of the early 1700's.
Chuck Norcutt
Woburn, Massachusetts, USA (about 10 miles northwest of Boston)
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