...that "In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit : The Missouri negro dialect ; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect ; the ordinary...personal familiarity with these several forms of speech." Oddly, Ellis does not quote "The Biglow Papers " as a specimen of Yankee dialect ; and he published...

...of artistry. As Clemens says in a significant preface, the shadings in the dialects reported by Huck "have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by...personal familiarity with these several forms of speech." To maintain Huck's idiom and through it to describe a storm on the Mississippi with intense vividness;...

...readers that he has therein used a number of dialects: to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary...personal familiarity with these several forms of speech. To a friend who had inquired as to his collaboration with Bret Harte in an unsuccessful and unpublished...

...Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary " Tike County" dialect; and four modified varieties of this...personal familiarity with these several forms of speech. To a friend who had inquired as to his collaboration with Bret Harte in an unsuccessful and unpublished...

..."to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; and the ordinary Pike County dialect, and four modified...guidance and support of personal familiarity with all these several forms of speech." To a friend who had inquired as to his collaboration with Bret...

...of artistry. As Clemens says in a significant preface, the shadings in the dialects reported by Huck "haVe not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by...personal familiarity with these several forms of speech." To maintain Huck's idiom and through it to describe a storm on the Mississippi with intense vividness;...

...Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary Tike County' dialect; and four modified varieties of this...personal familiarity with these several forms of speech." Few readers, one supposes, caught all seven of these shadings, but by this date many writers of fiction...

...Twain, who said concerning Huckleberry Finn that "the shadings have not been done in hap-hazard fashion but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity." In this respect, Dizzy takes his place in honored company, and who is to say that "tarpoleon" is not...

...note at the beginning of Hack Finn claims the extreme authenticity of his southwestern dialects, done "painstakingly and with the trustworthy guidance and...personal familiarity with these several forms of speech." But Twain had no embarrassment about entertaining his reader, and his universality was built upon such...

...types of dialect imitated in the book. Yet he, too, could claim that "the shadings [among dialects] have not been done in a hap-hazard fashion, or by guess-work; but pains-takingly" (Twain 9). The pains Faulkner took, however, were more internal to the fiction than external to his...