[PW] Re: Sara Jane Moore -- accent?

[Dan Goodman]

Fuller, Thomas (US - Washington D.C.) wrote:
> For better or for worse, like calls to like.  My wife is if anything
> even more compulsive than I am.
> 
> She's playing Emma Goldman in a local production of Sondheim's
> ASSASSINS, and is understudying the role of Sara Jane Moore, the
> would-be assassin of President Gerald Ford.  Moore grew up in West
> Virginia.
> 
> Her question, a challenge to the list:  Did Moore speak with a West
> Virginia accent, or not?
> 
> I can't find anything that answers this.  Can you?

One place to ask is the American Dialect Society website: 
http://americandialect.org.


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