[Magdalen] "Poor Little Old Rhode Island."

[Charles Wohlers]

Not to mention this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig2daWp-Pls

My d-in-l was born & bred in Rhode Island, but has no RI accent - perhaps 
'cause she's from Block Island.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



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Subject: [Magdalen] "Poor Little Old Rhode Island."



As the song goes:  "Smallest in the 48."


A new caregiver for Wilfred came by this morning.  She is a   pleasant
young lady who is dating seriously a young truck farmer. She will be
here a couple of hours a day six days a week.

I was startled to hear her say that she is a native of Rhode Island.

She has no trace of that regional accent at all, and when I pointed that
out,
she admitted hating her Rhode Island regional accent - a sort of  Greater
Boston accent on tough pills.  She has worked to lose it and to take  on
a General American rhotic accent.  She has been very successful  at
this.


David S.