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Default Accents-was:Grammar-was:Lee Valley optical center punch

Wed, Dec 31, 2003, 4:36am (EST-3) (Hylourgos) says:
snip it's been my understanding that a NC location has (had) the
closest dialect to Elizabethan snip

I'm not originally from NC. Retired here out of the Army, in '81.
Never been to Harker's Island. Grew up hearing words like that, and
still use 'em.

Now if I could just remember if that was 1981, or 1881?



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