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!