The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Mark Twain

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Dejavu Publishing

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242

In this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods South Western dialect; the ordinary "Pike - County" dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. the shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guess-work; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with the several forms of speech. I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding.
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