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)
I'd doubt that, being familiar with the modern East Anglian accent.
They don't sound anything like the Kennedy's. They do use some Norse
and Dutch words though!
Andrew
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