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To: jay1949

LOL Since I am a complete mix of Irish,English,Welsh,and German you can only imagine what comes out of my mouth. Y’all and youse is very common to hear here.


43 posted on 03/14/2010 12:18:21 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: chris_bdba; SMCC1; Paladin2; hoosiermama; squarebarb; lovecraft

For anyone interested in the Scotch-Irish contribution to Appalachian English, I recommend two papers by Michael Montgomery of the University of South Carolina:

1. The Roots of Appalachian English: Scotch-Irish or Southern British? (Appalachian Studies Conference, 1990).

2. How Scotch-Irish Is Your English? The Ulster Heritage of East Tennessee Speech (Journal of East Tennessee History 1995).

I have hard copies of these but they are probably still available on-line.


47 posted on 03/14/2010 12:59:37 PM PDT by jay1949 (Work is the curse of the blogging class)
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