@AnneWimsey Oh, I'm pretty good, or was, at Celtic Island dialects. As a Canadian, am I meant to know American dialects. But then, Americans do have a tendency to believe they know all.

@rogerbenham since I lived there for about 3 "wonderful" years, I do know......I'm going to assume here that you did not mean that remark to sound as dickish as it reads,.......

I grew up with that in Georgia. Didn't speak with such an accent myself, but my cousins did.

@BudFrank We all have accents and as I said he might well find my accent as strange as I find his. Actually what I find weirder is how country singers all seem to feel country music can only be done in Southern accents. As I grew up in the old world I was aware that accents could easily change/modify from village to village. I grew up knowing a couple of village people who had never been further than the nearest market towns 7 miles away. Over hundreds of years, if not thousands, each village developed its own accent. Most of England was covered by Saxons and Angles settled into a farming life after the Romans. The Normans conquered but did not displace those farmers. My village had an abbey dating back to 800 or 900.

Yes indeed