About the Author

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.