Question
Whose writing reflects the following regional dialect?
“‘Scuse me, suh, I’s lookin’ for my husban’. I heerd you wuz a big man an’ had libbed heah a
long time, an’ I ‘lowed you wouldn’t min’ ef I’d come roun’ an’ ax you ef you’d eber heerd of
a merlatter man by de name er Sam Taylor ‘quirin’ roun’ in de chu’ches ermongs’ de people
fer his wife ‘Liza Jane?”
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Mark Twain<-----
Cedric Yamanaka
Emily Dickinson
“‘Scuse me, suh, I’s lookin’ for my husban’. I heerd you wuz a big man an’ had libbed heah a
long time, an’ I ‘lowed you wouldn’t min’ ef I’d come roun’ an’ ax you ef you’d eber heerd of
a merlatter man by de name er Sam Taylor ‘quirin’ roun’ in de chu’ches ermongs’ de people
fer his wife ‘Liza Jane?”
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Mark Twain<-----
Cedric Yamanaka
Emily Dickinson
Answers
Ms. Sue
Nope. This is from "The Wife of His Youth".
https://www.google.com/search?q=Sam+Taylor+%E2%80%98quirin%E2%80%99+roun%E2%80%99+in+de+chu%E2%80%99ches+ermongs%E2%80%99+de+people++fer+his+wife+%E2%80%98Liza+Jane%3F%E2%80%9D+&enablesearch=true
https://www.google.com/search?q=Sam+Taylor+%E2%80%98quirin%E2%80%99+roun%E2%80%99+in+de+chu%E2%80%99ches+ermongs%E2%80%99+de+people++fer+his+wife+%E2%80%98Liza+Jane%3F%E2%80%9D+&enablesearch=true
Oh, okay. Thank you so much Ms. Sue.
Ms. Sue
You are welcome, Lauren.
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