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Show 125 GENERAL INTERPRETATION The Romance of a Busy Broker In an Atelier "'.. Thomas O. Henry 319 Aldrich 105 Bailey Advanced: Cap That Fits Austin Dobson 35 The Secrets of the Heart Austin Dobson 189 The Aunt Polly's Story of Mankind '" Donald Ogden Stewart 230 H. C. Bunner 322 The Round-up Lyrics. The lyric has been discussed in the preceding chapter and the study of rhythm, as before stated, is advised under a spe cial course. Dialect. rate course. The study of dialect has also been advised as a sepa However, many colleges have not developed their de partments of speech to may not have instructors the extent that this is possible; or they prepared to teach such highly specialized courses. "Dialect is any variation from the accepted English of today." English of today may be the dialect of tomorrow. Chaucer was the accepted vernacular of his day, today it is an almost un The readable dialect-a England foreign language. is difficult for many of us The Lancashire to understand. speech of The middle Englishman, the easily recognized Irishman, Frenchman, by their speech. In England and on the Continent, the language spoken by Americans is so different that it is considered almost a distinct language. One sees signs abroad reading, "French, Ger man, Italian, English, and American Spoken Here." Some of the authorities regard the Hoosier, Child, or Yankee dialect as a variation in our language, but not a dialect. I have taken the dictionary definition, "any variation from the accepted form;" which would allow a very much wider use of the term, and include all variations. To exclude Riley would be to leave out the father of American dialects. Without Riley, I doubt if we would have had Dunbar, Page, Chandler Harris, Hopkinson-Smith, Dr. W. H. Drummond, and many other lesser lights. The study of dialect should help the student of expression very much. The impersonations necessary to its study, will aid the westerner, Bostonian, Southerner, Yankee, the the German-all are the |
