On 14/08/05, SJ 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
--SJ, reminded of an HL Mencken book from the early 20th century that went over the major dialects in the US and their vocabulary quirks in surprising detail. (If you know the one I'm talking about, please remind me of its title)
Would this perhaps be the excellent /The American Language/? Admittedly I can only remember the parts dealing with the English language, but that may just be reader bias.