From: david_russell_watson
Message: 63496
Date: 2009-02-28
>Yup, those were my Daddy's people.
> The overwheming majority of early settlers west of the
> Appalachian mountains were from Ulster or had their
> roots there. The Scots-Irish were frontier people.
> They cleared the land, some stayed, others sold out andAll true, but do spell it 'Scotch-Irish', please. :^)
> moved on. Germans tended to follow them and preferred
> to buy already cleared land. Read the Wiki blurb on
> Pittsburgh English, Burghese, which is transitional form
> of Midwestern English with origins in Scots-Irish and
> Philly English.