On 11/26/2010 4:24 PM, Zeb Johnson wrote:
> http://sombra5.lbbhost.com/annabelle.html
Annabelle says:
: I don't need much eatin anymore.
: ...
: Jim, honey, is that yer voice I be hearin'.
Annabelle's words are English, but I believe there's a hint
of Celtic in her grammar. Is she of Irish descent (say from
the potato famine of 1846), or Scottish (from the Highland
Clearances).
Naturally she would know the Cumberland Gap, but maybe not
for whom it was named in 1750, ie Stinking Bil---- oops, er,
heh heh, I mean "Sweet William" Augustus, Duke of Cumberland,
British commander at Culloden.
SQ