Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Not What I Expected

I found this book to be less than I expected. It's important to note the subtitle of the book--"A Disappearing Language". This is because the language represented here is not what Southerners currently speak, but what they might have sounded like in the 30's or 40's. You'll find a lot of old-fashioned terms that nobody has used for decades.In addition, I was expecting a book about Southern dialect, but this is a brief dictionary-like volume. There is actually not much written about Southern dialect. It is only a list of words or phrases with a brief definition and an example sentence. To make matters worse, half of the entries are just pronunciation variants, so you don't learn much about Southern dialect by reading them.If you're looking for a Southern dialect dictionary, there are better ones on the market. If you're looking for information about the formation and characteristics of Southern dialect, you'll find nothing in this volume. I recommend to avoid it.