Tham khảo tài liệu 'english in the southern united states phần 2', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | The origins of Southern American English 13 Germans Italians Japanese Jews Portuguese Russians and other Slavs Scandinavians Spaniards and Swiss. Those ethnic groups settled mainly outside the South and so their influence was for the most part directly on or through other regional dialects. 4 The environment of Southern American English RobertFrost observed The land was ours before we were the land s. A language cannot but be affected by the environment in which it is used. Speakers settle in a place and then the place affects their speech. Whatever the origins of particular southern features in British dialects or non-English languages it is clear that a new amalgam grew up in America of which a formative influence was the new environment - that is whatever was around the speakers to be spoken of. American speech generally and southern speech specifically were often commented upon favorably by British visitors to the colonies as quoted by Boorstin 1958 274 The Planters and even the Native Negroes generally talk good English without Idiom or Tone. The impression of good English and uniform accent without Idiom or Tone is perhaps due to the fact that the colonists as a whole were of more uniform background than the population of the British Isles but also that communication among the colonies was relatively abundant. That communication easier and more frequent than contact with the motherland created a sense of connectedness and of belonging to each other and to the land. Not all Britons however were equally pleased with what they heard in the colonies. One such Francis Moore writing in 1735 observed that the town of Savannah . . . stands upon the flat of a hill the bank of the river which they in barbarous English call a bluff is steep and about forty-five foot perpendicular cited by Mathews 1931 13 . English rivers generally do not have steep banks and therefore the English had no need for a term to designate them. The American colonists did have such a need and .
