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by dctoedt 1332 days ago
> Southern Mountain Speech and/or rural American dialect

Funny, I thought it was a phonetic transcription of Scottish dialect (whence are derived many Appalachian speech patterns, of course).

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Touching on Scottish, but Northumbrian. I'm not that "broad" really, though.
Ah yes I've read that Appalacian pronunciation, dialect, and to a lesser extent grammar is still relatively faithful to some UK dialects. Fascinating that a literal phonetic transcription was potentially ambiguous.