Is there a Middle Peninsula accent? And, if so, where did it come from? The Rev. Dr. Robert W. Prichard, vice president of the Middlesex County Museum and Historical Society, will attempt to answer those questions when he gives a presentation on “Virginia Accents” at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 22, at the historic Middlesex County Court House. He will draw upon such diverse resources as the observations on American speech by Alexis De Tocqueville in “Democracy in America” (1835-40); the notes on pronunciation in Virginia that appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly Historical Magazine in 1895; the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States, which is based on intensive field studies in the 1930s; and the contemporary Speech Accent Archive at George Mason University. Educated at Princeton (BA), Yale (M.Div.) and Emory (Ph.D.), Prichard is an Episcopal clergyman and has served as both a parish priest and a history professor at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria. H...