Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 10:06:25 -0400

From: "J. Chambers" chambers[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CHASS.UTORONTO.CA

Subject: "brogue" in Ottawa Valley



The term 'brogue' was used by people in the Ottawa Valley when they

were talking about their distinctive speech. The varieties I had

access to were Scots-based, and the people who talked to me had Scots

ancestry. (The published result is a short article "Ottawa Valley

'twang'" in my 1975 book Canadian English: Origins and Structures, pp.

55-59.) I noted that "the terms 'twang' or (more usually among the

residents of the Valley) 'brogue'" are used, but I didn't make

explicit notes about who used which term or how often they used it.

Jack Chambers