From: tgpedersen
Message: 63311
Date: 2009-02-21
>I ran into a couple of common German-substrate (my interpretation)
> Most of them had at least 300 years --more if you take into account
> settlement patterns. How does that compare to other dialects?
> An interesting relic of former dialects are surnames, especially
> British lastnames, in parts of the US. Mc Carricker > Calico, Kennedy
> > Cannaday, Canada stand out in my memory but in the area where WV,
> VA, KY, TN & NC (almost) come together, there are some odd ones.
> Melungeon genealogists sometimes come with some howlers in terms of
> the origins of these names --claiming they're from Turkish, but
> they are mainly Scots-Irish