Textbook recommendation?

[Peter A. McGraw]

I would like to add that if you use this book for a course, your students
will probably find themselves reading ahead of the assignment.  It's that
engaging.

PMc

--On Friday, February 8, 2002 2:21 PM +0000 AAllan at AOL.COM wrote:

> Well, you might look for this book by (ahem!) Allan Metcalf:
>
> _How We Talk: American Regional English Today_. Paperback, published by
> Houghton Mifflin in 2000. Covers all regions of current American English
> and ethnic varieties and the movies too; and presumes no linguistic
> background. Some discussion of historical origins too.
>
> And it even has some items never before included in a work on American
> dialects! like "spendy" - which this book is not.



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                               Peter A. McGraw
                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu