Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site whuxi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!whuxl!whuxi!rcmcc From: rcmcc@whuxi.UUCP (MC_CONNELL) Newsgroups: net.columbia,net.aviation Subject: Re: Re: No joy? (-> accent of pilots) Message-ID: <133@whuxi.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 09:40:53 EDT Article-I.D.: whuxi.133 Posted: Thu Oct 18 09:40:53 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 09:08:03 EDT References: <875@aecom.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany, N.J. Lines: 11 The "Pseudo-Texan" and West Virginian accent/dialect are basically the same. The so-called South Midland dialect is spoken from the Applachian mountains in Pennsylvania down through West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and on down into Texas. I'm from southwestern Virginia, near Tennessee, West Virginia and Kentucky, and I'm often taken for a Texan by those familiar with the speech pattern. Ron McConnell, Bell Communications Research, whuxi!rcmcc