Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 09:18:17 -0600

From: Joan Houston Hall jdhall[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU

Subject: Re: trade-like and trade-last



An article by John L. Clark in 1983 American Speech (58.20-30) lays out the

evidence DARE has collected for "trade last" and its many variants, and

includes maps for trade last (with 208 Informants), TL (116), trade (34),

and last-go-trade (37). The earliest citation Clark mentions is from 1896

Dialect Notes 1.426; since he wrote the article, we've come across an 1892

citation as "trade-lash," probably a typo rather than a variant. David

Shulman provides a Kipling citation and other comments in 1985 American

Speech 60.308 and 1992 American Speech 67.223.



Joan Hall, DARE

jdhall[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]facstaff.wisc.edu