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The Shamuckin’ Revenooers has Mommicked up an’ Well-Nigh Ruinated th’ Pore Ailin’ Bodies

Record #:
24643
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Abstract:
Most of the earliest settlers of the Appalachians came from the English Isles and other northern European regions. The author provides examples of the syntax and popular phrases of settlers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Source:
The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 26 Issue 21, March 1959, p9-10, il