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Episode 06 – Slide 75

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)...

Episode 06 – Slide 74

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...

Episode 06 – Slide 73

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), 1825

Episode 06 – Slide 71

Footnotehttp://www.therestorationmovement.com/images5/campbell01.jpg http://www.outrageouscampbellite.com/Delusions.html http://lds-mormon.com/campbell.shtml

Episode 06 – Slide 68

FootnoteImage source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alson_Sherman Text source: http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/CA/natr1988.htm Testimony from an ‘unattributed recollection” from type set preserved in the A. B. Deming papers and reprinted in the 1988 “Naked Truths...