Date:  Sun, 20 Feb 1994 16:44:58 -0500

From:  Martha Howard <UN106005[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WVNVAXA.WVNET.EDU>

Subject: network



This is absolutely marvelous. I feel like I have come home. Am one of

Marckwardt's products from the University of Michigan and worked with

McDavid on Linguistic Atlas info in West Virginia, where I have been

since 1950. Long enough that I probably sound like a West Virginian even

though i will never be one--only way to do that is to be born here. I am

still regarded as an outsider, albeit a friendly one. Spent mostof my

 professional career teaching linguistics at WVU, esp. American English,

based on Marckwardt, of course. My limited dialect research has been with

West Virginia terms. Glad to share what little I know. Just ask. M. Howard