I have some trepidation about putting this piece up online, because I have worked hard on it, over a period of years, and Rusticatio has in that time become a large part of my life, and I’ve wanted to do it some justice in print. Sitting on it for years meant that I could just add section after section, as new people came to Rusticatio and I heard so many of the discussions about what happens there and why it’s important. The result was something quite long – but I felt that each part of it really did say something. When the editor at Eidolon accepted it but said she’d like it shorter, I wrestled with it for few days but then simply offered to withdraw it – I didn’t want it cut. I could always just put it up here anyway. But she said she’d bend the rules for it because she thought it was a good piece. Anyway, here it is – the Latin Speakers of West Virginia.
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