It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases. To start the videos click on them. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tipper (@blindpigandacorn) on Mar 30, 2020 at 11:33am PDT 1. Fair to middling: fairly good, average. “How you doing today?” “Oh I’m fair to middling.” 2. Far piece: a great distance. “It’s a far piece out to where my oldest sister lives…
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Appalachian Dialect
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It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases.…
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It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases.…