And DARE. At 05:46 PM 3/7/2000 +0800, you wrote: >Arnold Zwicky wrote: > >> ... nonstandard preterites ... but have there been some systematic >> surveys? ... > >How about E. Bagby Atwood's _A Survey of Verb Forms in the Eastern United >States_ (1953, U.Mich.Pr). > > >---Warren A. Brewer. >