Dialectic or dialectal?

Peter A. McGraw pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU
Fri Feb 4 17:04:17 UTC 2005


Sounds like the Advertiser may be engaging in a little dialectal
materialism.

--On Friday, February 4, 2005 11:53 AM -0500 sagehen
<sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM> wrote:

> A recent issue of the /Anderson Valley Advertiser/ quotes at length from
> an entry in RHHDAS (on the derivation of "honky") which uses "dialectic"
> where I would have expected "dialectal."  Is this standard RHHDAS usage,
> or perhaps a typo or misquote?
> A. Murie



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Peter A. McGraw       Linfield College        McMinnville, Oregon
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