How would revolutionary soldiers sound?

Rick Johnson   Sun Jun 04, 2006 12:49 pm GMT
I was just recently reading something about Paul Revere that look at his writing. It seems that he wrote "git" for "get", "hoss" for "horse", "tetchy" for "touchy", "varmint" for "vermin", "chaw" for "chew", "keer" for "care" and "nater" for "nature".

Once I'd got over the realization that Americans were warned of approaching British troops by a Yosemite Sam impersonator, I noticed that a couple of the vowel sounds, while extinct in England, can still be heard in New Zealand- "git" for "get" and "keer" for "care".
Guest   Sun Jun 04, 2006 2:52 pm GMT
Chris   Sun Jun 04, 2006 2:54 pm GMT
"Git" for "get" hasn't died off in America either, although I haven't ever heard "keer" for care.
Geordie D   Sun Jun 04, 2006 3:24 pm GMT
Git, Keer, tetchy and chaw are still alive and well in England.

it's called pitmatic northumbrian.
it also has a flavour of Dutch to it ('New Amsterdam' ring a bell?)
Rick Johnson   Sun Jun 04, 2006 5:01 pm GMT
<<Would Paul Revere sound like this then?

http://www.earthstation1.com/WBCartoonFiles/WB_Wavs/varmint.wav >>

It would be cool if he had done!
Rene   Mon Jun 05, 2006 3:25 pm GMT
In some parts of America they still use the word chaw. Here's a song that came from my great-grandma that she learned from her mom in Arkansas.

Well, Papa do n't allow me to whistle and Mama don't allow me to sing.
So between the both of them you see, I can't do anything.
So, I chew my chawin' gum; chaw my chewin' gum.

I don't know the rest