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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vicki Richman [log in to unmask] National Writers Union Harlem, New York PGP 2.6 UAW Local 1981, AFL/CIO "You are about to witness an experiment: the effect of electricity on Wood." -Frederick Wood, the last person executed by the State of New York. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------