[Magdalen] Speaking of the Carolinas...

[Jon Egger]

One of the elderly but active woman at Old Trinity, is a lector on one
Sunday a month.  She has a beautiful North Carolina, despite the fact that
she was born in Montana!  Her lilting voice is a joy to hear.

A priest I know did a wedding (for an old friend, you know how that is) in
Charleston. Hanging around at the small church for the reception, in
speaking with folks in attendance, when he told them where  he lived (KCMO)
People would say "Oh, you're from off!"  Is that an expression South
Carolina uses for people not from SC?

Grace and peace,
brud

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 6:07 AM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:

> David, South Carolina accents vary across the state.  The further into the
> upstate from Charleston you move, the more 'North Carolina' you will
> find...but with SC's very own distinctions.  People in the Pee Dee area and
> people from Columbia and others from Greenville all speak with a Southern
> accents but not the same ones.  Charleston, on the other hand, has a
> dialect unto itself.  Wikipedia has a good description;
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina
>
> Truth is, as more people move to the South and South Carolina, one does not
> hear so many 'pure' accents these days.  Just in our small church we have
> families from Chicago, Michigan, NY, VT, VA, etc.  One of our members has a
> heavy Charleston accent and I have a smidge...my father was born and raised
> in Charleston and his mother was of French Huguenot descent.
>
> And, to Sibyl's article, I would love to do excavation at an archetural
> site.  One is being done locally at the 1750 English Church ruins built as
> part of the Church Act of 1706.  An entire settlement grew there with 1800
> residents in its hay day.  On the Ashley River, the highway to Charleston
> for the plantations.  St. George's English church's bell tower still stands
> but everything else is lost.  Digs to find the foundation have been going
> on for years, as have those to identify the village buildings and homes.  A
> tabby fort remains more or less intact on the river banks.  General Swamp
> Fox Marion from time to time fought for the colonies in the fort.
>
> History, including that beneath the ground, is fasinating to me.
>
> Ginga
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Over and beyond the obvious flood problems for which we all pray
> > will be resolved, I've been interested in the interviewing of the
> > residents
> > on the national news programs.
> >
> > I had in mind that the typical South Carolinian had a deep southern
> > accent more akin to South Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi.   Instead,
> > they sound much more like natives of North Carolina with which I  am
> > familiar (brother lived in Cary, NC in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill
> > area).
> >
> >
> >
> > David Strang - whose sister-in-law from Evansville, IN sounds much
> > more like the the Alabama natives than South Carolina  natives.
> >
>