DiscussWorldIssues - Socio-Economic Religion and Political Uncensored Debate - View Single Post

**CesseOveldset** · 06-06-2007, 09:34 AM

I feel the need to point out here, that a Scottish accent is the same as an English (or American for that matter, but we all know that all Americans have a deep southern accent...) accent in the sense that it doesn't really exist...

In certain parts of the Outer Banks of North Carolina (Okrakoke, Hatteras, Wanchese) they speak kind of an Olde pre Elizabethan English. Many of the inhabitants are descendants from shipwreck survivors, pirates etc.

Years ago I went to a birthday party for my friend's grandmother and when she started talking to me my first reaction was "Huh? What language is this?" In a short time I recognized it because they made me read Chaucer in the original when I was in high school.

06-06-2007, 09:34 AM	#17
CesseOveldset Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 550 Senior Member	I feel the need to point out here, that a Scottish accent is the same as an English (or American for that matter, but we all know that all Americans have a deep southern accent...) accent in the sense that it doesn't really exist... In certain parts of the Outer Banks of North Carolina (Okrakoke, Hatteras, Wanchese) they speak kind of an Olde pre Elizabethan English. Many of the inhabitants are descendants from shipwreck survivors, pirates etc. Years ago I went to a birthday party for my friend's grandmother and when she started talking to me my first reaction was "Huh? What language is this?" In a short time I recognized it because they made me read Chaucer in the original when I was in high school.
	Quote