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...
