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Subj: [ULLANS] Appalachian stuff
Date: 10/14/00 2:32:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: mark@clydesburn.co.uk (Mark Thompson)
To: ULLANS-L@rootsweb.com
Some stuff that might interest y'all:
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"... Willie lives in Ball'meena and talks purty good Inglish
jest like us here Hillbilly folk..."
http://www.breathnach.com/ulster.htm
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"... By the 1950s, material collected by linguistic geographers demonstrated
that the notion of a homogenous American English was a myth, and that strong
dialectal differences existed throughout the country, not just in the
regions long considered islands of dialect. By then, however, assumptions
about the backward and "substandard" language of the Southern Highlands were
well established, having been perpetuated by decades of stereotypical
representations in the popular media. For nearly a hundred years, the
culturally backward hillbilly and his linguistically backward dialect have
been inseparable in the popular imagination..."
Sound familiar?
http://198.209.8.166/ozarkswatch/ow803j.htm
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Mark
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