Early New England Pronunciation as Reflected in Some Seventeenth Century Town Records of Eastern Massachusetts |
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American amptonshire appears back vowel Bedfordshire Berkshire Bradford's History Cambridgeshire century Cheshire Colony conclusive confused consonants Cornwall course Cumberland D1636 and frequently DD gives DD records Dedham Derbyshire Devonshire dialects of East dialects of Leicestershire dialects of Northamptonshire dialects of Scotland dialects of Staffordshire dialects of Yorkshire diphthong Dorsetshire East Anglia England English dialects Essex evidence examples front vowel glide vowel Gloucestershire Groton H. C. Wyld Hampshire Hertfordshire high vowel Huntingdon indicate instances interpretation inverted vowel Isle of Wight Jespersen Kent Kentish Lancashire language Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Massachusetts Middlesex midland modern English naive forms Naive spelling Norfolk North Country Nottinghamshire nunciation orthographic Oxfordshire past participle perhaps phonetic pioneers Plymouth possibly present preterite preterite occurs pronounced pronunciation reflect represent scribal scribe shire short Shropshire Somersetshire sound speech suggest Surrey Sussex symbols tense tion unrounded unstressed syllables Warwickshire Watertown Wiltshire Worcestershire words Zachrisson
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Page 89 - ... the single county of Essex, and, to be still more particular, this precise portion of that county in about the centre of which we are to-day assembled, had more to do, and exerted more influence, than all the rest of England combined ; and, consequently, that it is to this identical neighbourhood, strictly speaking, rather than to the entire kingdom, that the origin of New England, and through it the American nation, must be traced by the careful antiquary. From a list of the earliest settlers...
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Page 128 - we are to look for the roots of Eastern Massachusetts speech in the eastern dialects of England.
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Page 124 - Court, there were embraced the towns of Watertown, Waltham, Weston, the largest part of Lincoln and that part of Cambridge lying east of Mount Auburn Cemetery between Fresh Pond and the Charles River...
Page 128 - It is interesting to note also that 599 came from the coast counties as against 72 from the inland counties. There were very few from the middle western counties, only four from Lancashire, and none whatever from the four northernmost counties. From the Scrooby region — southern Yorkshire, northern Nottingham and Lincolnshire — there were not a great many besides those who came to Plymouth by way of Holland.
Page 91 - ... sentence, he could scarcely have done better than ' she can't seem to go into a room without the things fly right into their places.' A glance through Mark Twain's Library of Humour, a collection from various parts of the States, discovers a few more words, mostly from the New England States. We note that as the scene shifts westwards, the old dialect appears less and less, but still it has travelled and, though sparse in growth, has found its footing. Indiana supplies froze (frozen), roust (rouse),...
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