Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 14:33:34 EST From: Terry Lynn Irons Subject: Clabber milk Help! My milk has soured and I don't know what to call it. More seriously, I have been trying to map some regional terms across Kentucky, and I have come upon a problem that may affect my analysis. I have been concentrating on the terms Davis & Houck use in their critical 92 AS article examining the question of a Midland dialect. I am also including terms that Kurath 49 considers to be distinctly Midland. Anyway, based on Davis & Houck 92, I have been treating the variants for sour milk "clabber" and "clabber(ed) milk" as northern and southern terms, respectively. But in recently preparing a presentation I was reading through Kurath's Word Geography, and on page 70, he clearly writes, "Clabber is the Southern expression, clabber milk that of the South Midland." His map (Fig 124) shows "lobbered milk" and "loppered milk" to be the Northern terms. Being uncertain, I decided to check volume one of DARE, and behold, I found contradictory information. In DARE, "clabber" is cited as chiefly Northern, and Kurath is quoted as a source. Currently I am in a quandry. Can anyone help me out here? The resolution could have consequences for some interpretive issues. Terry Irons P.S. Even though somebody said I hit the nail on the head about the internet survey, I agree with what Lance said. -- (*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*) Terry Lynn Irons t.irons[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]morehead-st.edu Voice Mail: (606) 783-5164 Snail Mail: UPO 604 Morehead, KY 40351 (*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)=(*)