Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 13:45:29 CDT

From: "Krahn, Al" AKRA[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MUSIC.LIB.MATC.EDU

Subject: American English Grammar - Fries



Clayton

The subtitle of the Charles Carpenter Fries book (Appleton-Century-

Crofts, 1940) is The Grammatical Structure of Present-Day American

English with Especial Reference to Social Differences or Class

Dialects.



In Chapt. 3 he alludes to three thousand letters from "certain

files of informal correspondence in the possession of the

United States Goverment" as the source of the study. Also, copies

of the letters are on deposit at the University of Michigan

Library. Only handwritten (not typed) letters were used. Some

demographic information was also available about the writers of the

letters, such as date and place of birth of the writer and the writer's

parents, addresses, records of schooling, occupations, and in some

cases confidential reports on the families!



I'm glad you brought this up. It made me read that chapter, something

I probably skipped in the past.



AKRA



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