Show mountaineer english the mountaineers have been called our contemporary ancestors ance stoie deop people le from the cities who visit them are invariably struck with the old fash cloned archaic language commonly used betit yet it Is good if ungrammatical english that they speak if shakespeare were to return to earth today he would feel fairly at home with the mountain people open fireplaces the spinning wheel and the handmade hand milde too loom in the greek lamp and many other simple household implements would be familiar objects to the immortal bard again he would be in the forest of arden and the language he would hear would bo be his own I 1 ethel park richardson in preface to american mountain songs |