1980/06/01 by J. C. Wells · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Lexicography and Language Studies #Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
paper · doi:10.1017/s0025100300002115
openalex publication_date 1980/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
We have all heard of the remote community in the Appalachians (or is it somewhere in the North of England ?) where the locals still supposedly speak pure Elizabethan English, unchanged for centuries. But this is not the only dialectological myth which persists tenaciously in the popular imagination and will no doubt continue to do so despite its lack of factual basis.