The Rev. Dr. Robert W. Prichard of the Middlesex County Museum and Historical Society (MCMHS) will address Virginia accents at 2 p.m. Sunday, November 22, at the Middlesex County Courthouse in Saluda.
He will draw upon such diverse resources as the observations on American speech by Alexis De Tocqueville in Democracy in America (1835-40), notes on pronunciation in Virginia that appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly Historical Magazine in 1895, the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States, which is based on intensive field studies in the 1930s, and the contemporary Speech Accent Archive at George Mason University, reported intern and volunteer coordinator Stephanie Milligan….
