Excerpt from Dialect Notes, Vol. 1
Professor A. B. Hart said there are two kinds of dialects, one the native English left to itself and developing alone; the other, the kind which Shows an influence of other tongues. For the former kind there are a few speech islands left, such as Cape Cod, Nantucket, Western New York, the country parts of North ern Ohio (the old Western Reserve), and places in the Southern mountains, with, however, some scotch-irish influence. One of these districts would be a good subject for study.
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