dialect in novels

[Bob Haas]

But vittles and chitlins--chitlins especially--seem to me to be different
words from their more traditional forebears, victuals and chitterlings.
I've heard chitlins all my life, but nary a chitterling.

> From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 13:48:07 +0800
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> Subject: Re: dialect in novels
>
> Yes, "likker" is another nice one.  Then--if Ike wants something to
> wash down with it--there's "vittles" and "chitlins" for the very
> misleadingly if traditionally spelled "victuals" and "chitterlings".