Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's
comrade). Scene: The Mississippi Valley. Time: forty to fifty years ago |
EXPLANATORY.
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 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's
comrade). |  |
EXPLANATORY.
In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit:
the Missouri negro dialect;
the extremest form
of the backwoods South-Western dialect; the ordinary
"Pike-County" dialect;
and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings
have not been done
in a hap-hazard fashion, or by guess-work; but pains-takingly,
and with the
trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these
several
forms of speech.
I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would
suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not
succeeding.
THE AUTHOR.
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