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Phonology: Theory and Analysis. by Larry Hyman

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The fellowship of the ring : being the first part of the Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Phonological Analysis Focus on American English by Walt Wolfram Robert Johnson

The Riverside Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

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Favorite authorsMargaret Atwood, Tony Hillerman, Steven Pinker, Tom Robbins, John Steinbeck (Shared favorites)

Favorite librariesPenn State University Libraries, Schlow Centre Region Library

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About mewriter/editor (in the same building as the late, great Svoboda's Books), ESL instructor/tutor on and off

About my libraryI am only including books I own and have read for the time being. For the curious, my tag "widget" is for those books I wish to randomly appear in an LT widget on one of my Web pages.

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Evidence: An Alex Delaware Novel by Jonathan Kellerman

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When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware Novels) by Jonathan Kellerman

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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain

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Poetry in America (Pitt Poetry Series) by Julia Spicher Kasdorf

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Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned about Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat by Gwen Cooper

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8 wonders of kansas guidebook by Marci Penner

Ahoy, grammargoddess! I posted this, but it's easy to miss so I hope you don't mind if I also p.m. you:

News for grammargoddess, erilarlo, MarthaJeanne, carolcat, et al., about a new, worldwide availability of the Distant Cousin series. They are available from Smashwords (http://www.smashwords.com/books/search?q...) in EIGHT different e-book formats. Several of the formats can even be printed, if you really want to. They're budget-priced, $4 each, which is a steal!

The listing is too new to have any reviews, but you can check Amazon for reviews if you like, or, get this: read 40% of the book for free. Talk about a new frontier!

I repeat the earlier caveat: these are light-hearted, recreational stories with something for almost everyone that are somewhat informed by reasonably accurate linguistics, OK?

posted by AnaDarcy at 10:13 pm (EST) on May 1, 2009

Replying without copying your comment made me miss the southern German connection. Even a strong southern German accent can throw a northerner off 8-) I can handle a pretty strong Swabian accent, but other south German dialects are even harder to deal with. Someone from the Black Forest speaking pure dialect faced with someone from Bavaria doing the same would need a translator!

posted by erilarlo at 11:08 am (EST) on Mar 1, 2009

Although they are grouped together as Plattdeutsch, the differences east to west across the northern German-speaking area, particularly a couple generations back, could easily be quite different from each other and mutually unintelligible. Berlin's dialect is QUITE different from Frisian, for instance. I'm not sure what area Pennsylvania Dutch is closest to off hand(I did know at one time, but have forgotten), but it's definitely not the far eastern end of the Platt area. Furthermore, PA Dutch had to have been influenced by English even that far back.

posted by erilarlo at 11:00 am (EST) on Mar 1, 2009