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Subject:	Re: Speech Pattenns
From:	Brent Tarter <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:28:43 -0500
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If I had enough time, which unfortunately I don't, I would go search
through the diaries and letters of John Adams, who wrote little
thumb-nail sketches of the men he met while he was serving in the
Continental Congress. About one of them (I think I recall that it was
Thomas Nelson) Adams noted that he spoke very fast, like all the
Virginians.

So much for hot, lazy, ignorant Southerners and their drawls.

Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
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