[PW] Re: Hypothetical cultural divergence

[Dennis Lien]

This book, on a severely local English sort-of-dialect, might also be of 
interest:

Author    	Adams, Charles C.
Title   	Boontling: an American lingo; with a dictionary of Boontling, by 
Charles C. Adams.
Published   	Austin : University of Texas Press, [1971]
Description   	ix, 272 p. : illus., fold. map. ; 24 cm.
Note   		Bibliography: p. [267]-272.
Subject LC   	English language -- Dialects -- California -- Mendocino County.
ISBN   		0292700822: $7.50
Material Type   	bks
System No.   	000303873

see also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boontling

http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/linguistics/news/boontling.htm

etc.


Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu