(05-17-2024, 05:26 PM)Ninurta Wrote: Some of the toughest American dialects I've ever heard are Gullah from the coastal islands of South Carolina, and the language of the lobstermen in Gloucester, Virginia. The Louisiana Cajun dialect ain't got nothin' on them for effort to understand!
There once was a movement afoot to have Appalachian English designated as "Queen Anne's English" and have it associated with the English spoken around the time of the first English colonies in America, but I personally think that everything changes over time, and the Appalachian dialects have also gone their own way in the intervening years between colonization and now.
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I agree Gullah is in a class by itself.
Even has my good friend's husband's Chinese Jamaican accent beat.