Date:  Tue, 22 Mar 1994 08:01:00 EST

From:  "Dennis.Preston" <22709MGR[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MSU.BITNET>

Subject: Actors and accents



David Johns has not been talking to the right Southerners. I certainly knew

the KORN announ cer (of Hee-Haw fame) and Walter Brennan were not South

Midland speakers. I suspected Brennan of being rural New England (not bad),

and I actually thought the KORN annoujncer was British doing something which

he thought was Southern. (Turns out he was Canadian; give me a C-.)

If Johns means that nonlinguists saw noting amiss in these performances, I

suppose I could be convinced, but I will have to have evidence from more than

a few Southerners he has spoken to.

Dennis Preston <22709mgr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]msu.bitnet>