... characteristically Southern English uses and patternsare all unique to the South, undocumented in Britain and thus innovations of southern dialect. The origins of Southern American English 13Germans, ... earlier Southern English to havebeen a pivotal point in the transmission of English, especially northern English dialectal features, to the US.Another obvious use of the SPOC is the testing of ... concerning the nature, the uniformity, and the origins of Southern English. In a sense, it is even presumptuous to talk of Southern English as a putativelyhomogeneous linguistic entity in itself...