Hugh Murray

I have taught at universities in the US, the UK, Germany and China and I have published in numerous academic journals. I was active in the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s demanding equal rights for Blacks. NOW I SUPPORT CIVIL RIGHTS AND DEMAND EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL CITIZENS, INCLUDING WHITES AND MEN. (For some of my more formal writing, go to http://www.anthonyflood.com/murray.htm you can find photos, etc.) For most of my writing, see Tulane University's Library, Special Collections.

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

ON THE PUTIN-XI MEETING OF MARCH 2023

Since the days of Nixon and Kissinger, US has aimed to split Moscow and Beijing. The Biden Presidency pushed them into marriage. Biden is a catastrophe for the US. More nations are dumping the dollar and using the Yuan as reserve currency. Worse, the new anti-US grouping appears to be Russia, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, North Korea, and add on Afghanistan, Syria, possibly Turkey, Solomon Islands, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, possibly South Africa - that is a huge bloc lining up against the US, thanks to the brilliant leadership of Joe Biden and the Democrats.

Friday, March 17, 2023

IRISH INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN ACCENTS?

Newser just had an article regarding St. Patrick's Day, the day Irish celebrate. It noted the most Irish American cities, beginning with New York City, and Chicago, followed by Boston. New Orleans was not on the top 10 list. I added a comment on how I thought the Irish had influenced the language of both New Orleans and Brooklyn, and in the same way. Perhaps I am wrong, or not? Hugh

New Orleans did not have the usual Southern accent; the NO accent was much more like the Brooklyn accent of old. Aw my Gawd. Lawdy Miss Claudie, Fats Domino sang of when we're apawt, and that would rhyme with my big hawt. Some might call me an old fought. One too tree. it's easy for da goils. Oil put erl in da caw. Ya rench your hands afta ya bin to da terlet. How long ta berl da water? And in the 1986 film, "The Big Easy," Dennis Quaid often calls Ellen Barkin "dawlin''. A part of New Orleans was called the Irish Channel, as many Irish arrived as ballast on ships from the UK during the potato famine, 1840s & 50s. The Irish new comers probably changed the accents of both Brooklyn and New Orleans about the same time and in the same way. In the North it was Brooklynese; in New Orleans, we were Yats, for Where are you at? a form of Hello, Where yat?

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

AN AGING PROBLEM!

Dear folks, excuse me, but I am old. Now, I cannot remember, President Biden's Sanctions, were they meant to bring down Russia's Putin, or the Western Banking System? (Just joking)