The other day I was thumbing through my Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English and noticed there were several interesting entries for the word feather. feather dance noun Same as a buck dance.1983 Matthew Cutting a Dido 105 The “feather dance” [is] a local sobriquet for old style buckdance: “A ‘feather dance,’ that’s just a little toe dance. You just kind of move from your knees down, a little feather dance. The old-timers said that when you were a smooth dancer,…
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Appalachian Dialect
In my latest video I share some of Appalachia’s unusual word usages and phrases. I hope you enjoyed the video!…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases.…
A few weeks back I made a video showing how to make candy roaster cookies. I also shared information about…
In my latest video I discuss several unusual grammar and phrase usages in Appalachian language. I hope you enjoyed the…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases.…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases.…
go devil noun A heavy maul for splitting or chopping logs, usu having a hammer on one side of the…
One of my recent videos goes right along with Jim’s guest post from yesterday. Hope you enjoyed the sayings 🙂…
One of the common stereotypes about the Appalachian region is it’s an undereducated area of the United States. That couldn’t…