Statistics for occurrence #1 of “South Carolina” in chapter 9 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment:
...t line is well matched by the music.
The rest is conglomerate, and one or two lines show a more Northern origin.
Done is a Virginia shibboleth, quite distinct from the been which replaces it in South Carolina .
Yet one of their best choruses, without any fixed words, was, De bell done ringing, for which, in proper South Carolina dialect, would have been substituted, De bell been a-ring.
This refrain ...
Max. Freq. | Min. Freq. | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Entity | Corpus | Doc | Corpus | Doc | |||
† | South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) | 21,990 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes |
† This entity has been selected by the automated classifier as the most likely match in this context. It may or may not be the correct match.