This is not about changing the rich dialect in "Huckleberry Finn," but only a couple of words, leaving the rest exactly the same.
Genre is a rich dialect, in which you can say certain things in a particularly satisfying way, but if it gives up connection with the general literary language it becomes a jargon, meaningful only to an ingroup.
From the Border ballads to Blake and beyond, I love our splendidly mongrel language and the range of accents and rich dialects in which it dresses itself.
How reassuring to read of efforts to teach Appalachian children not to be ashamed of their rich regional dialect ("Linguist Finds Dialect A-flourishin' in Appalachia," Ellenboro Journal, Feb. 7).
Talking about the Hanshin Tigers' batting order, how troublesome certain aspects of sex could be, how mind-numbingly boring it was to study for the entrance exams, how emotionally rich Kansai dialect was.
Her warm voice and rich Scottish dialect are supported by her own guitars and harmonium and friends add trumpet, clarinet, flute and other acoustic instruments.
Murray writes of The Macquarie Dictionary (1981), in an essay titled "Centering the Language", that it shows "how much larger and richer our dialect is than many had thought, in part by gently but firmly shifting our linguistic perception, so that our entire language is henceforth centred for us, not thousands of miles away, but here where we live".
The only people who want it are the political elites, but the price in the United Kingdom is losing our long-established county structure and with it the rich local dialects that abound.
Under the Normans, the town had a large colony of Lombards, and to this day the inhabitants speak a dialect rich in Gallicism.
Yorkshire may like silly terriers and hate the definite article, but its rich and often incomprehensible dialect has been charted by Ian Macmillan with an ear worthy of Henry Higgins.
They are the men in "Miguel Street" (1959), a book of linked stories rich in comedy and dialect, based on the street in Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad, where Naipaul spent his formative years.
