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Raleigh, Cheryl – Georgetown Journal of Languages and Linguistics, 1991
The tracing of the origin of the name of a Tidewater, Virginia, group of watermen who spoke a distinctive dialect illustrates the power of language in marking the group's social parameters and distinguishing that group from other area watermen. (34 references) (CB)
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Dialects, English, Etiology
