The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #120893 Message #2634224
Posted By: Bat Goddess
17-May-09 - 06:58 PM
Thread Name: CD to Preserve Essex Dialect
Subject: RE: CD to Preserve Essex Dialect
What Fred McCormick said.
I'm interested in English language dialect, accent and dialect words and origins no matter how far afield from my homeground.
It's a fascinating language and I'm glad I'm speaking one version of it, at least. (Hmmm...maybe more than one. I'm currently disguising myself as a New Englander, but I lapse into Midwestern or Milwaukee-ese occasionally.)
Linn