Doublespeak: Dialectology in the Service of Big Brother.

sheep" (p. 15) and that "the Minneapolis term rubber-binder (for rubber band)" was spreading into Wisconsin (pp. 3637). He also declared that Southerners pronounce marry as if it were spelled merry; that they pronounce fog and hog like fawg and hawg; that they have a final /r/ in humor; that they make which identical with witch and rhyme Miss with his; etc. (pp. 12-13). But one does not expect high scholarship from a popularizing textbook, and though Dr. Shuy's discoveries made no great noise in the world of dialectology, the fault was not his alone. As he himself pointed out, American dialect studies were becoming "both more complex and more interesting," and new questions were being asked.