Excerpt from Dialect Notes, Vol. 1 Professor A. B. Hart said there are two kinds of dialects, one the native English left to itself and developing alone; the other, the kind which Shows an influence of other tongues. For the former kind there are a few speech islands left, such as Cape Cod, Nantucket, Western New York, the country parts of North ern Ohio (the old Western Reserve), and places in the Southern mountains, with, however, some scotch-irish influence. One of these districts would be a good subject for study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.