10 Brooks, The Language of the American South, 8-12.
11 Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), chap. 20.
12 Records of dis and dat in Sussex in the 19th century appear in W. D. Parish, A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect and Collection of Provincialisms in Use in the County of Sussex (Lewes, Sussex, 1875, rpt. 1957). Other sources are brought together by Cleanth Brooks in The Language of the American South, 55-56.