Footnotehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_English http://www2.ferrum.edu/applit/studyg/dialect/features.htm * A-prefixing on –ing participials. Example: …and he came a-runnin’ down there” Reference: Wolfram and Christian (1976); Christian, Wolfram, Dube (1988)...
FootnoteRigdon is sometimes dismissed as a candidate author because the 1830 Book of Mormon is replete with grammatical errors, and Rigdon was described by Orson Hyde as a “grammarian” who taught grammar. But Rigdon was raised near Pittsburgh, where the Appalachian...
FootnoteImage: http://ia700800.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/23/items/olcovers624/olcovers624-L.zip&file=6246255-L.jpg Thomas Horne, “Introduction to the Critical Study and knowledge of the Holy Scriptures”, Philadelphia (American Edition),...
