A word geography of Missouri
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"THE PROBLEM: BACKGROUND AND PRESENTATION: From the vantage of the sixth decade of the twentieth century, it does indeed seem strange that dialect study was for such a long time virtually nonexistent in the United States. It would seem that a nation placing strong emphasis on democracy and the common man would likely have been greatly concerned with folk and common speech. It is true, however, that American scholars have been primarily attracted to literary and cultivated speech, virtually ignoring common speech until well into the twentieth century. Actually, it is in the speech of the common man that differences in regional and local expressions are most apparent."--Page 1.
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