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From: polard@fortune.UUCP (Henry Polard)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: 'enry 'iggins in America
Message-ID: <4799@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 15:04:13 EST
Article-I.D.: fortune.4799
Posted: Fri Dec 14 15:04:13 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 02:37:53 EST
References: <598@asgb.UUCP>
Reply-To: polard@fortune.UUCP (Henry polard)
Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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Summary: 

In article <598@asgb.UUCP> devine@asgb.UUCP (Bob Devine) writes:
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>  BTW, isn't the use of 'America' for the United States of A. a
>regionalism (big region, to be sure).
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Yeah - just about the whole world.

BTW, do you know about the Dialect Atlas of the U.S., edited by Hans Kurath?
You may find other books by him interesting; he is the dean of American
dialectologists. 

-- 
Henry Polard (You bring the flames - I'll bring the marshmallows.)
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