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Some Sources Of Southernisms by Mitford Mcleod Mathews Some Sources Of Southernisms is a pioneering linguistic work based on the 1947 Dancy Lectures at Alabama College, exploring how American English in the American South developed and diversified through contact with Indigenous, African, and other languages. The book surveys Nahuatl loanwords entering English during and after the Spanish conquest—naming foods, plants, places, and everyday terms such as tomato, avocado, jalapa, ocelot, peyote, and mesquite—and explains how these terms were assimilated into American speech. A second section examines Muskhogean influence on the southern vocabulary, including river and place names and common terms from Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw, highlighting the polysynthetic nature of these languages and their complex naming conventions. A final section discusses Africanisms in plantation speech, especially the Gullah dialect, noting words like cooter, banjo, hoodoo, gumbo, and cush. Mathews frames American English as a dynamic, world-connected language shaped by multifaceted linguistic contact and historical circumstance.
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