"He Bes took up with a Yankee girl and moved up there to New York": The verb Bes in the Carolinas and its history

American Speech

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 240-281

  Montgomery, Michael ^a   Mishoe, Margaret ^a  

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