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Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English

Dave Wilton, Thursday, February 01, 2007

Montgomery, Michael B., and Joseph S. Hall. Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004.

A very good regional dictionary.

Filed under: English Dialects

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