English Sources of Some American Regional Words and Verb Forms

The field survey for the Linguistic atlas brought to light a considerable number of words, largely in the range of the intimate vocabulary of the home and the farm, which are confined to certain parts of the Atlantic States, such as New England, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the Appalachians. In the B...

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Published in:American speech 1970-04, Vol.45 (1/2), p.60-68
Main Author: Kurath, Hans
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American colonies
Dictionaries
English
Folk speech
Gutters
Nonstandard Dialect
Onions
Orthographies
Past tense
Regionalism
Register
Verbs
Words
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