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From: "Hood, Roger L." <>
Subject: RE: U.S. regional vanacular
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 09:11:23 -0400


It's occurred to me on several occasions that the cadence and flow of
the Scottish and Irish languages (dialects) strongly favors that of the
Southern United States. Do y'all know whether there has been any good
research on this?

By the way, is there a "" listserv in a
digest form? Leaving my computer off since Friday afternoon resulted in
a flood of individual Scotch-Irish emails (about 250) and that would
certainly be more manageable.

Alas, although a Texan by both heritage and choice, I have no recipes
for armadillo.

Roger L. Hood
-or-
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/5875
Dallas, Texas

>-----Original Message-----
>From:jgblair [SMTP:]
>Sent:Sunday, June 21, 1998 12:00 PM
>To:
>Subject:Re: U.S. regional vanacular
>
>
>"Youse all" (All of you) is a popular contraction in Ulster
>to this day - it's not a far stretch to "Y'all".
>Fair on ye guid billies!
>Jim blair
>

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