Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea

[ailbhe]

Wait - all those maids and hired hands described as French are actually black, aren't they?

I think I preferred the books before I realised that.

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Also, the representations of dialect don't look much like French-speaking English, now.

I *think* that's because the dialect being represented is Acadian, not French. I'll have to pull my set out and re-read it.

The Acadians would have been considered "French" (and very low-class French, at that) by the English/Scottish.

[ailbhe]

Aha! And that's why the dialect triggered mind-link "Cajun" in my head. Thank you.