Date:  Mon, 6 May 1996 15:54:55 -0500

From:  "DICK HEABERLIN, ENGLISH DEPARTMENT,

     SOUTHWEST TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY" <DH12[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SWT.EDU>

Subject: Re: Th Linguistic Autobiography



Speaking of Shirley stories--Southeast Texas Dialect-- and autobiography,

I think immediately of Mary Karr's _The Liars Club_, which is a feast for

anyone familiar with, or interested in, southeast Texas dialect.



Dick Heaberlin,

who grow up in Orange, before it became part of the Golden Triangle.