Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 14:39:28 -0500

From: Beverly Flanigan FLANIGAN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU

Subject: Re: HOW TO TALK AMERICAN



Marcia Moore, I deleted your direct request for info on Appalachian

English so will reply via Jim Crotty's book heading. Joan Hall already

referred another requester to DARE, vols. 1-3, and its index in

_Publications of the American Dialect Society_, which can direct you to

words and idioms used in AE. For grammar features, see Walt Wolfram

and Donna Christian, _Appalachian Speech_, and other studies done over

the past 20 years or more. In other words, sound scholarship on AE has

been available for a long time!