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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
Subject: LL-L "Resources"2008.09.12 (06) [E]

> From: Montgomery Michael <ullans at yahoo.com>
> Subject: LL-L "Resources" 2008.09.12 (06) [Ap/E/S]
>
> To those of Appalachian ilk and others besides,
>
> If I might be immodest in making recommendations, I'd point to my
> _Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English_ (U of Tennessee Press, 2004),
> which is an 800-page historical work chock full of quotations from
> southern Appalachian literature.  Some Jack tales are more authentic
> than others, but just about all are highly stylized (that is, larded
> with artificial dialect).  My favorite of the genre is Charles Taylor
> Adams' _Grandpap Says_ (1993).  For a remarkable collection of macabre
> stories, read Mildred Haun's _The Hawk's Done Gone_ (1945, but
> reprinted much more recently by the Univ Press of Kentucky).  I would
> also point listers to a website on Appalachain speech I have created
> at www.cas.sc.edu/engl/dictionary

.  It has half a dozen papers I've
> written on mountain speech, but no doubt more important, recordings of
> Smoky Mountain elders recorded in 1939 along with transcripts of what
> they say (click on "Transcripts").  All this will get you'uns started.

Thanks, Michael. No price on the dictionary at the University website?
I'm not very good at surfing, so I may just be missing something.

Cackleberry is about to enter British English because I'm not going to
be able to resist using it  :)

Do you think any modern Appalachian might try writing the Jack Tales
more authentically? They're great stories but even from this side of the
water it's obvious that the language is only a flavour of the real
thing.

Sandy Fleming
http://scotstext.org/

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