[78-L] Pronounciations and Odd Label Misspellings: Deep EllumBlues

[Gregg Kimball]

There's a bit of that, I think, but what is closest to my ear, strangely 
enough, is the old Boston Brahmin accent.  I once found an early antebellum 
letter from a well-heeled Richmonder who was touring the principal Eastern 
cities and he remarked on how much New Yorkers and Philadelphians were hard 
to understand, but the Bostonians sounded like Virginians!  Naturally, he 
was meeting folks of his own class, which clearly plays a role in accents.

Gregg

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> Do those FFV folk sound rather like Scottish people?   One notable
> mutation that comes to mind is the kind of traditional Scottish dance
> that was originally known as 'contra' dance, but by way of the typical
> pronunciation it became known as 'country' dance.
>
> (That quirk of the Texan accent has thrown me too; I remember one time
> someone telling me about a group whose name sounded like 'promise'
> when he spoke of it.  Primus was their name.)
>
> On 1/2/09, Gregg Kimball <gdkimball at cox.net> wrote:
>>> What did people get water out of:  tap, spout or spigot?
>>
>> I got mine from the faucet.
>>
>> Being a New Englander, I had to re-learn many words the Virginia way.
>> Staunton is STAN-ton here.  Buchanan is BUCK-an-on, and Buena Vista . . .
>> well, I'm not even sure how to write that out. There is also a really
>> interesting Richmond-Tidewater accent, especially among the FFVs, that
>> pronounces words like house something like: HOOS.
>>
>> This also reminds me of some of the famous mis-hearings = misspellings on
>> labels: "Far In the Mountain" for "Fire on the Mountain" and "Green
>> Mountain Poker" for "Green Mountain Polka," which is not a polka, but 
>> that's
>> another story.  Clearly on "Fire" someone couldn't quite figure out what 
>> a
>> Texas boy was saying!
>>
>> Gregg
>>
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