Abstract
HE CONTINUING STUDY of English dialects has clarified some of our ideas about the true nature of our language. It used to be thought that the tangled pattern of migration and settlement had produced a general American dialect west of the Appalachians. Now, because of the work of many linguistic geographers, we know that southern limits of the Northern dialect can be traced from the Atlantic states west to Nebraska and the Da-
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