Dany Serck has written:

> But what has moral issues got to do with Huck's dialect, or any
> dialect?
> Can anyone explain this to me?

It's really quite simple. If, in the earlier novel, Aunt
Polly had seen fit to call it huconics, she might have got a
grant to sivilize Huck, and the whole raft trip would never
have happened.

Hope this helps.

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