How to Use This Book.  1. Studying English Dialects  2. Posh and Less Posh Dialects  3. English in Many Shapes and Forms  4. Dialects - The Old and the New  5. Dialect Maps  6. What Dialect Maps Can Tell Us  7. How Dialect Boundaries Get to be Where They Are  8. Spot Your Dialect Area  9. Present Tense Verbs  10. Different Dialects, Different Grammar  11. Dialect Grammar - The Old and the New  12. Overdoing Things.  Further Reading