And another...
Dialect in the British Isles.
Fascinating concept. Is there something like this for the U.S.?
From John Derbyshire:
I naturally wanted to hear the voices of my childhood. There he is, Billy Williamson, Northamptonshire farm laborer, talking into a mike in 1957. "Sounds like a hillbilly," said my American daughter. No, honey; the hillbillies sound like **us**.
True enough. That's where the people of the Ozarks hailed from.