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To: Edwarda who wrote (2204)	3/22/1999 4:54:00 PM
From: Tomato	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

Does anyone know when the name "Ethel" first appeared in the lexicon? The reason I ask is that the gag in Shakespeare in Love about "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter" rang untrue to me, and I wondered when Ethel made its first appearance? Was it on "I Love Lucy?" ;-) Or was she Cain and Abel's little known sister?

To: Edwarda who wrote (2204)	3/22/1999 8:20:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

Edwarda: If you were driving on the back roads of Georgia That brings up another entire subject for discussion: regional speech patterns, or dialects, if you will. As a native speaker of one of the Southern varieties, I find this a fascinating subject. Most writers don't handle Southern speech very well. Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner are exceptions, especially Faulkner's handling of the African -American variety. And the TV and film actors who try to do it are often laughable in their ineptitude, mixing the very different mountain and flatland dialects. It's amazing that the English actress Vivian Leigh was able to do a very good Georgia accent in Gone With the Wind. Just musing. Jack