ATD question about Lake's speech (217)

Paul Mackin mackin.paul at verizon.net
Sat Apr 28 09:37:12 CDT 2012


On 4/28/2012 9:30 AM, alice wellintown wrote:
> What other examples of Appalachian speech by characters can we
> identify? And, is the use of "behind" to mean "in the future" or "yet
> to come" Appalachian? Maybe it's a mistake.
>
>> The Traverses must have arrived early in the New World, remained isolated in
>> Appalachia, until moving west in the 19th Century.
>>
>> Maybe.
>

Just a thought.

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