A Knyght ther was, and that a worthy man,
That fro the tyme that he first bigan
To riden out, he loved chivalrie,
Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie.
(Knight pronounced Ke-nich-tuh)
Go here and hit the .wav file button at the bottom -
http://faculty.smu.edu/bwheeler/Ency/ktale.html
Doesn't sound very Carolina to me!
Andrew Fildes
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On 09/06/2010, at 12:01 PM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Bob Whitmire
> <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Aye, and in coastal North Carolina, along the Outer Banks, as well as
>> the extreme western part of the state. I'm told there are places in
>> Maine as well, but I haven't heard it.
>>
>> On a different but oh so slightly related subject: A waitress in a
>> small sandwich shop I frequented for lunch many years ago used to
>> send
>> her patrons off with a hearty "Caio, y'uns!" God Bless Diversity. <g>
>
> That's a great story, Bob.
>
> On my dad's side my ancestors were pure English -- direct, no-nonsense
> folk. There was mention of a coat of arms in a genealogy written by a
> great aunt, but she allowed herself the editorial remark that she "had
> no faith in it." Heraldry is an industry in the UK, so I don't have
> any faith in it either.
>
> Anyway, my grandmother was not a great talker -- kind of quiet and
> sweet. She would often put an "a" before participles: "The cow was
> a-bellowing." "The cat was a-hissing and a-spitting." If she said it
> and you had asked her to write it, she would have written "The cow was
> bellowing," "The cat was hissing," etc.
>
> My two aunts (her daughters) sometimes speak this way, usually as a
> tone of annoyance or complaint enters into the thought it is meant to
> express. It seems old, possibly related to the "y" before verbs and
> participles: "Summer is ycummen in."
>
> Or:
>
> A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine,
> Y cladd in mightie armes and siluer shielde,.
> Wherein old dints of deepe wounds did remaine ...
>
> In any case, I hold on to the memory of its sound as I don't hear
> people speak that way anymore.
>
> Joel W.
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