Download or read book Handbook of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States written by William A. Kretzschmar and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-09-15 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who uses "skeeter hawk," "snake doctor," and "dragonfly" to refer to the same insect? Who says "gum band" instead of "rubber band"? The answers can be found in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS), the largest single survey of regional and social differences in spoken American English. It covers the region from New York state to northern Florida and from the coastline to the borders of Ohio and Kentucky. Through interviews with nearly twelve hundred people conducted during the 1930s and 1940s, the LAMSAS mapped regional variations in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation at a time when population movements were more limited than they are today, thus providing a unique look at the correspondence of language and settlement patterns. This handbook is an essential guide to the LAMSAS project, laying out its history and describing its scope and methodology. In addition, the handbook reveals biographical information about the informants and social histories of the communities in which they lived, including primary settlement areas of the original colonies. Dialectologists will rely on it for understanding the LAMSAS, and historians will find it valuable for its original historical research. Since much of the LAMSAS questionnaire concerns rural terms, the data collected from the interviews can pinpoint such language differences as those between areas of plantation and small-farm agriculture. For example, LAMSAS reveals that two waves of settlement through the Appalachians created two distinct speech types. Settlers coming into Georgia and other parts of the Upper South through the Shenandoah Valley and on to the western side of the mountain range had a Pennsylvania-influenced dialect, and were typically small farmers. Those who settled the Deep South in the rich lowlands and plateaus tended to be plantation farmers from Virginia and the Carolinas who retained the vocabulary and speech patterns of coastal areas. With these revealing findings, the LAMSAS represents a benchmark study of the English language, and this handbook is an indispensable guide to its riches.
Download or read book Through Three Centuries with a Dawson Family written by Lee Orval Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Dawson and his wife, Rebecca Doyne, settled in Charles County, Maryland, in the late 1600's.
Download or read book Major General Adam Stephen and the Cause of American Liberty written by Harry M. Ward and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Adam Stephen, a physician and Scottish emigrant, became a leading military figure, commanding Virginia troops during the French and Indian War and in the Continental army during the northern campaigns of the American Revolution.
Download or read book Monical Family Tree written by Mrs. Kenneth Kuhns and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Monical (1762-1851) and his wife, Mary (Maryan) were married ca. 1787. They had six children, 1788-1802. He and his brothers, Rev. Peter Monical (1772-1836) and George Monical (b. 1776), were living in Nicholas County, Kentucky, in 1810, and migrated to Indiana a few years later. Christopher died at Salem, Washington County, Indiana. Descendants lived in Indiana, Illinois, California, and elsewhere.
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Download or read book Revolutionary Virginia the Road to Independence pts 1 2 Independence and the fifth convention 1776 written by William James Van Schreeven and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History and Genealogy of the Poling Family written by Clerissa H. Tatterson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Poland (Poling, Polan, Polen, Polin) and his family immigrated from Gloucester Co., England to Lynn, Massachusetts in 1642.
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Download or read book Down in the Barns written by Virginia Billingsley Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also includes the Ousley/Owsley (Thomas Owsley, 1658-ca. 1700 of Stafford County, Virginia); Yadon (Joseh Yadon, 1756-1843 of Ireland, Virginia, and Tennessee) and other ancestral families of John "Guider" Keck and his wife.
Download or read book West Virginia History written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Jacob Alt Born 1725 30 Germany died 1770 Frederick Co Maryland written by Clara Mae Alt Ross and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob Alt was born in about 1725 or 1730, probably in Germany. He had six sons, John, Henry, Jacob, William, Adam and Michael. He died in 1770 in Frederick County, Maryland. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa and Kansas.
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