All the talk about food measurements reminded me a of a story Pap once told me. There was an older man who lived at the head of Pinelog when Pap was a boy. His name was George. One day a trader came to see George about buying his milk cow. The trader asked if the cow was a good milker. George told him “Now I hell she gives a waste of milk.” Taking George’s comment to mean the cow gave…
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Appalachian Dialect
Usage of the word blow To rest or catch one’s breath. 1975 Fink Backpacking 5 Here we had to stop…
Tamela: Green-up always happens with a flourish around here. There is a pinkish-greenish haze for a while which lingers as…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases.…
Photo by NPS Archives “From my first days in the Smokies I listened carefully to all native people I met…
“I just want shed of him.” Tipper Overheard: snippets of conversation I overhear in Southern Appalachia Subscribe for FREE and get a…
Years ago at one of my first jobs I worked for a nice lady that was from off somewhere.…
sun ball noun The sun. 1918 Hartt Lost Tribes 396 Let us consider the mountaineers a race apart and dwell…
Chitter and Chatter As you can see from the photo, the girls had some real jaws when they were babies.…
Last week while I was talking about the importance of passing our rich colorful Appalachian Language on to the…