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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