Query: Dialect Ten

[Patti Kurtz]

I'm not sure if this helps, but I'm from the Pittsburgh area originally, and
that's a well formed sentence in my dialect (I say things like that all the
time, even though I took grief about it in college).

I've never heard it called "dialect 10" though.  Wonder what dialect 1 would
be then?

Patti Kurtz
English Department
Heidelberg College
Tiffin, Ohio

-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Barrett <gbarrett at worldnewyork.org>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Date: Thursday, June 27, 2002 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: Query: Dialect Ten


>On 6/26/02 17:44, "Grant Barrett" <gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG> wrote:
>
>> Please respond to the original sender as well as the list, not just to
me.
>>
>> ------ Forwarded Message
>> From: "Michele Marietta" <mmarietta at garygroup.com>
>> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 14:36:38 -0700
>> Subject: dialect ten
>>
>> hi there.
>> have you heard of this?
>> do you know where it's from - which region of the US?
>> I'm curious and haven't found a thing about it on the internet.
>
>She followed up with this, which explains what "dialect ten" is supposed to
>describe:
>
>i'm taking a linguistics class at my university and we were presented with
a
>sentence:
>
>"mark's shirt needs ironed."
>
>we all thought it was rubbish, but the instructor assured us that it was
>indeed a dialect, dialect ten, and that
>he'd grown up in the area of the US where that was considered a fine
>sentence.  however, he didn't tell us
>where dialect ten was from.
>
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