Click here for notes, and please follow the links below to some maps from The Story of English:

1. Norse invasion of England
2. modern England dialect areas (based on "r" loss)
3. early US dialect areas
4. Scotland
5. Scots migration to Ulster
6. Scotch-Irish migration from Ulster to the U.S.
7. Appalachian migration
8. U.S. dialect areas
9. migration to Canada