I find it interesting that his last remark was about recruiting future Cardinals. I didn’t know that private schools recruited -wink wink

I wonder if this is the last year of WJU being a private school before becoming a branch campus of WVU - https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/04/05/two-years-...

Looks like they are in a heap of trouble, but I doubt WSJ becomes a branch of WVU, maybe a branch of Xavier! ;-)

http://www.ajcunet.edu/institutions /

Then the proper phrasing would have been - Was Will well thought of as a coach on our staff?

Word in their athletic conference and the circuit of WV schools is, it’s more than likely done after this year and will become a branch for WVU

How about them folks in "Urntin"? Aren't you concerned about cumminikating with those 'thur folks?

Don’t forget dem Porchmuff people.

Living across the river from Kentucky I was struck by the fact that many considered their dialect to be ignorant and unintelligible. A researcher uncovered the fact that some who lived in the 1700 era were still using Elizabethan English and many of their hick words were actually Elizabethan with no contact from the outside world.

Thanks, BTC, I'd knew you'd come through with Portsmouth history. That 1810 House sounds interesting, I'll try to check it out the next time I'm in that area. I think that Doc probably has the answer to the pronunciation question.

Doc, I think that you've hit on the explanation for the pronunciation. This reminds me of an experience that I had once when I was teaching at Marshall. I had gotten used to and understood all of the various regional dialects in West Virginia -- North Panhandle, Eastern Panhandle, Central, Southern Coal Fields, etc. However, one fall I had a new student who was from a very isolated community on the top of a mountain in the southern part of the state. I could hardly understand a word that he said. He used words that I had no idea what they meant. His syntax was like something I'd never heard before. After awhile I got to where I could usually understand the drift of what he said, but communicating with him was difficult. Strangely, though, he was a good writer and his writing was for the most part in standard English, with just a few archaic words every now and then. By his sophomore year, after being exposed to the urbane cultural of Huntington, he was speaking in a much more understandable -- by me -- manner. At some point, I did a little research on this background and discovered that the community that he came from had been researched by linguists who discovered that they spoke a very little evolved version of Elizabethan English. Who would have thunk it!

Amazing stuff Ohio Cat Fan. English settlement patterns, along with the Scots and the Welsh is fascinating enough, then throw in German, Irish, Eastern European and Gullah and Cajun cultures and you could spend a lifetime travelling the country just listening to the remnants of those accents. Seeing that we are one day in front of the 4th of July, it is hard to fathom what a lot of those folks went through.

And I get a kick out of how your Licking County town, Pataskala, is pronounced by some.