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To: Lynn who wrote (52980)	3/12/1999 10:29:00 AM
From: rupert1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Lynn: +++++++++++OT++++++++++++ One last word on UK/US accents. Acquaintances from the business community in North Carolina invited me to stay with them when I was still doing post-graduate work at Oxford. I was delighted whenever I was inroduced and said "How do you do?" Everybody would reply "Purty g'd". I was asked to give a talk to a large "fish supper party" near a lake. Feeling a little miffed at a lot of the racism exhibited towards their black employees by my hosts for the better part of two weeks, my talk was rather charged - it was about Northern Ireland and then an English impression of matriarchal aspects of Southern US society. On the way home I shared a big Oldsmobile with three women who had been in the "audience". One of them said "Victor, 'ahm not so shurre we all agree with what you said there tonight, but you sho' do speak purty!" Another NC acquaintance told me that it is so hard to beleive that the English accent is natural that if you were to wake one of us during the night so that we were off-guard, we would yell out "What y'all doin!"