Excellent presentation! Thank you for using your real voice. You are soothing and interesting. You captivated my attention and that’s hard to do. There were many excellent choices at excellent prices. I wish it was so easy today.
Accents are not always or even usually solidified at any age. For the first 24 years of my life I lived in NY not far from NYC. When I move to Syracuse my accent softened, and when I moved to Ohio less than two years later it didn’t take long (less than a year )before my accent sounded like most of the native Ohioans. I’m in my 50’s now still living in Ohio, and long gone are my days of pronouncing “coffee” as “cauffee”. Other people, however, never seem to lose their accents regardless where they live. The truth is that without recordings from a specific time and place in the distant passed, we can only speculate even when hearing some one from the era speak long after a particular time and place.
Keno Bill found the bottom of an abandoned mine shaft. Also, it's surreal seeing the Gazette arguing against taking guns to town. The way Americans regard guns has changed a lot since then.
I completely believed the Hollywood cliches of gunfights at high noon, gigantic southern drawl, and high death rates during my youth. Funny how popular Hollywood was in my youth in the 90s to nowadays when everyone pokes fun at them at is very derogatory towards them. I believe that if what is called coming full circle.
The California native who was talking about the Concord coach did not pronounce his R's - I heard "Con-kid Coach", like he came from Massachusetts himself.
Doc Holliday was from Georgia, so he would’ve had a drawl. Rooster Cogburn was from the “Little Dixie” region of Missouri, so he probably would have also.
When America was white. 🙏 As a russian nationalist who never was to USA I feel kind of nostalgic and homesick when I see these old american one-story red-brick towns. This is real America and clearly you lost something very valuable with them. Anyway I'm reading Blood Meridian at the moment and this video is helpful. 😁
The "first" pronunciation is very Irish, still. It's still changed a bit but without the sound of the R or the sound of it has changed and blended in with the S. In fact, a lot of it is very Irish, combined with a posh English accent.
I love these, thank you. A couple times the interviewee mentioned "The Park", but they didn't mean South Park, they meant the greater Leadville area. Do you know if that park had a name?
It could have been Taylor Park in Gunnison county but I have heard the reference “the park” before and I’m not entirely sure which one they’re referring to. In the Victorian era West I’ve often seen references to “the mountain” and “the valley” without clarity on the meaning. Lost to time I think. And I am happy you enjoy the videos, thank you for stopping by!
The Civil War veteran spoke exactly like the old timers spoke when I was a kid. Same pronunciation and cadence. Must be the 19th century midwest way of speaking.
3:31 I think you got your terminology wrong. A rhotic accent is an accent in which the R is always pronounced. The coil-curl merger is inherently non-rhotic or variably rhotic since the R in curl is dropped.
Thanks for the upload, and I completely agree with your words on Simon Roper, who really does a great job, trying to fill in on American dialects and some of it's origins. Thanks again ☺
My grandparents on my mom's side are from the eastern shore in Virginia and Maryland in the 1930s. That's also a very cool accent to look up if yall are into that.
the modern american accent is spanish much like the modern american people its been 250 years dont you think its time to move on? its time to press 2 for spanish indefinitely america should always have been a spanish speaking country
When I used to think about what people sounded like during the wild west era this wasn’t in mind a lot of the accent I hear most likely doesn’t even exist anymore it’s a interesting accent’s I’m hearing, and the farmer actually sounded a lot like the looney toon character Elmer Fudd exactly the same accent.
