Appalachian English

[Jonathan Lighter]

If Michael Montgomery did it, it's got to be first-rate.

  JL

Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at OHIO.EDU> wrote:
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I assure you it's a good section, edited by our own Michael Montgomery of
the University of South Carolina.

At 10:35 AM 5/3/2006, you wrote:
>The library here has just received an "Encyclopedia of Appalachia"
>published by the University of Tennessee Press, edited by Rudy
>Abramson & Rudy Abramson.
>
>It's arranged in general sections, with an overview & short
>encyclopedia type articles. There is a section on Appalachian English
>on pp. 999-1033.
>
>I haven't read this section and would not be able to evaluate it if I
>had.
>
>GAT
>
>George A. Thompson
>Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
>Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
>
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