Date: Tue, 9 Aug 1994 00:14:54 CDT

From: "Donald M. Lance" ENGDL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1.BITNET

Subject: Re: eye dialect



As Sumner Ives points out in his article on the literary use of dialect,

one must know about the author's dialect to determine what his/her dialect

spellings mean. What's eye dialect to a whut-speaker may not appear so to a

what-speaker, /h-/ or no. wut, wat, whut....

DMLance