A few weeks back Nancy Scott Beach sent me the following question on the Blind Pig and The Acorn’s Facebook page. “My dad always told visitors to just stay the night and he would put them on a liphook. Instead of saying he would make a mat on the floor for them. I googled liphook and couldn’t locate a southern slang usage that way. Was that just one of my dad’s Scots-Irish heritage sayings? Curious if you have heard that.…
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Appalachian Dialect
Chitter – Late Winter 2019 weed dust noun Pollen. 1966 Dykeman Far Family 273 Instead, she walked on through the…
all three adjective phrase variant syntactic position after nouns or pronouns modified. 1937 Hall Coll. Emerts Cove TN You can’t…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases.…
Chitter is plumb foolish about the creek In the last few weeks two readers have emailed me with the suggestion…
C verb (also gaum up) To smear, make sticky, muddy, dirty, or greasy; to disarrange, make untidy (also used facetiously,…
The other night we were headed over to Vogel State Park for a performance. We were talking about one thing…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases.…
brogue noun A distinctive local accent or habit of pronunciation (with no reference to perceived Irish or Scottish characteristics). 1978…
A couple weeks back Jeanne left this comment: “Have I missed a discussion about “jack”. What kind of things are…