Query: Dialect Ten

[Donald M Lance]

dInis,

Thanks for the plug.

DMLance

on 6/27/02 10:20 AM, Dennis R. Preston at preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU wrote:

> Need+past participle is indeed much more widespread than Pittsburgh
> (see recent articles by Frazer, Murray, and Simon in AS, but the
> mystery of "Dialect Ten" is easily solved if you look at the back of
> any ADS t-shirt (and consult the handout which accompanied it for the
> reference).
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>> 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
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>>> 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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