nearly had a heart attack) The use of the simple past infinitive vs present perfect infinitive. I like to had. vs I like to have had. We were supposed to went. vs We were supposed to have gone. Use of "yonder" as a locative in addition to its more widely attested use as an adjective. They done gathered a mess of raspberries in them woods down yonder. Current projects A project devised by Old Dominion University Assistant Professor Dr. Bridget Anderson entitled Tidewater Voices: Conversations in Southeastern Virginia was initiated in late 2008. In collecting oral histories from natives of the area, this study offers insight to not only specific history of the region, but also to linguistic phonetic variants native to the area as well. This linguistic survey is the first of its kind in nearly forty years. The two variants being analyzed the most closely in this study are the diphthong as in house or brown and post-vocalic r-lessness as in for . Notes References Lippi-Green, Rosina. (1997). English with an accent: Language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States''. New York: Routledge. Shores, David L. (2000). Tangier Island: place, people, and talk. Cranbury, New Jersey. Associated University Presses. Wolfram, W, & Schilling-Estes, N. (2006). American English. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing. External links Example of an old Virginia accent spoken by a Richmond, Virginia native, featured in the George Mason University Linguistics program Speech Accent Archive. "Virginia’s Many Voices," Fairfax County, Virginia Library International Dialects of English Archive, "Dialects Of Virginia" "A National Map of the Regional Dialects of American English," by William Labov, Sharon Ash and Charles Boberg, The Linguistics Laboratory in the Department of Linguistics at University of Pennsylvania Hamptonroads.com English-American culture in Virginia Virginia culture American English Culture of the Southern United States African-American English