Elizabethan Left-Overs in Allen County

• Main Author: Dalton, Alfred
• Format: Others
• Published: TopSCHOLAR® 1936
• Subjects: Anthropology; Arts and Humanities; English Language and Literature; Folklore; Linguistic Anthropology; Other English Language and Literature; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2244; https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3233&context=theses

This study of the Elizabethan influences remaining in the spoken language of the people of Allen County, Kentucky, is an outgrowth of discussion in the English classes of Dr. Gordon Wilson, Western Kentucky State Teachers College, concerning the folklore of the present-day rural people of Kentucky. I have endeavored to give a true picture of the picturesque language of the farming people as they go about their every-day business of making a living, with particular emphasis upon those words and usages that are no longer considered in good use.