Appalachian E/Kirk Hazen

[Jesse T Sheidlower]

>
> ADS members might be interested to know that today's New
> York Times has an article about Appalachian English that
> features ADS member Kirk Hazen. Apparently people are
> calling for Kirk's resignation for daring to claim
> that dialects are regular, etc. etc.
>
> The article is at:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/020700holler-edu.html
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
> Oxford English Dictionary
> <jester at panix.com>
>
>