4 Dial, “The Dialect of the Appalachian People,” 463-71.

5 James Parton, Life of Andrew Jackson (3 vols., New York, 1859), I, 47.

6Honey as a term of endearment was also occasionally heard in New England and the Chesapeake. But it was specially associated with North British and Irish speech, and in the 18th century came to be regarded as an “hibernianism.”

7 Dial, “The Dialect of the Appalachian People,” 470.