I Got the Idear - My Love Affair with Maine Language (Northeast Folklore, Volume #40

by Marion Kingston Stocking, Pauleena MacDougall (Editor)

An editor since 1938, Marion Kingston Stocking, now in her eighties, has penned a volume about Maine dialect. Includes two appendices "University of Maine Student 1946-1948 & "Transplant Translates Our Dialect for Tourists".

80 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Josh]

A bit dry and too short, but I lovely look at the Maine accent and Maine slang. Probably the only book that's a serious examination of the Maine dialect rather than some sort of parody dictionary of Maine slang with a bastardized accent.