Thomas’s Reviews > Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert > Status Update

I should have known better given who wrote this. At one point he repeats this disproven and ridiculous idea: "During moments of excitement, Grandma Herbert would lapse into Old English, a dialect spoken in her family for centuries. Sometime in the 1600s, her ancestors had immigrated to the hills of Kentucky and Tennessee, and in certain enclaves the old dialects were preserved and spoken."