From Ulster to America

Scotch - Irish Heritage of American English

Michael Montgomery

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Ulster Historical Foundation
23 June 2006

Regional studies; History; Migration, immigration & emigration

Over the last 350 years, Ireland has sent a constant stream of emigrants to North America. Estimates range from six to ten million. Each emigrant spoke English, Irish, or Ulster Scots. Many indeed used two of these tongues. One of the most formative chapters in this fascinating story is the often-overlooked arrival of perhaps 200,000 people from Ulster in the Colonial era, specifically in the sixty years before the American Revolution. This book recounts the lasting impact they made on the development of the English language of the United States from the eighteenth century to the present day. It documents nearly four hundred terms and meanings, each with quotations from both sides of the Atlantic, that were contributed to American English by these eighteenth-century settlers from Ulster. Drawing on letters they sent back to their homeland and on other archival documents associated with their settlement, including local fiction and poetry, it shows that Ulster emigrants and their children, who settled mainly in the American interior, gave as much to regional American English as any other group from the Old World. Its pages contain many pleasant surprises: readers will find terms both instantly recognisable and unfamiliar. The numerous quotations not only bring alive the speech of earlier days on both sides of the Atlantic but also extend our understanding of the culture, mannerisms and life of those pioneering times and, through the spoken and written word, poignantly link the past with the present.

By: Michael Montgomery
Imprint: Ulster Historical Foundation
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 2,100mm, Width: 1,500mm, Spine: 200mm
Weight: 360g
ISBN: 9781903688618
ISBN 10: 1903688612
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 23 June 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Montgomery is Professor Emeritus of English and Linguistics at the University of South Carolina. For the past twenty years he has read widely in the archives and museums of Ireland, Scotland and the USA to find the material for this book.He has written widely on Irish and Scottish links to American English, his most recent book being 'Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English'(2004) He is Honourary President of the Ulster-Scot Language Society.