The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Publisher: Project Gutenberg
Published: 2010 May 10
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781548194956
Description: In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary "Pike County" dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech.I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding. (back cover)