Re: "An Herby" vs. "A Herby"

**Pat Meadows p*@meadows.pair.com**

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:36:33 -0500, you wrote:

>  I've not been there, but apparently on Tangier 
>Island off the coast of Virginia the older people speak almost 
>Elizabethan English (and that's not Elizabeth II....). 

A lot of the Eastern Shore people have an accent that in
some ways reminds me of a British accent.  'About' is
pronounced 'aboot'.  A book (which I pronounce buk) is boook
- both these are quite like my husband's north-of-England
accent.

Pat - who used to live in Delaware


>     Incidentally, it is Noah Webster who is responsible for the 
>American spelling differences.  He was determined that America should be 
>different from Britain in as many ways as possible, so when he wrote his 
>enduring dictionary, he removed superfluous letters from many words, 
>such as colour/color; harbour/harbor and changed letters that have 
>similar sounds (s's, c's and z's). 
That's interesting.  I didn't know that.

Pat
-- northern Pennsylvania
"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of
supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to
live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry 
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