End of ADS-L Digest - 6 Aug 1994 to 8 Aug 1994

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Topics of the day:



 1. eye dialect (4)

 2. new word contest



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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