A few months back Garland sent me the following comment: I have seen you use the word cove from time to time. What is the Appalachian connotation? The sailor in me sees a cove as a small sheltered bay. According to Google it also has some architectural meanings. I could find nothing relating to mountains or landscape. Perhaps you could explain in your next vocabulary. Thank You Garland —- As I read Garland’s question I immediately thought “Well a cove…
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Appalachian Dialect
touchous adjective A variant forms techous, tetchious B 1 Physically or painfully sensitive. 1990 Cavender Folk Medical Lex 33 =…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. Today’s test is of the spooky variety. I’m sharing a few videos…
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That bucket of water and mud mess they left in the backyard stinks to high heaven. —- The other day…
bird noun A quaint character, comical or remarkable person. 1939 Hall Coll. Saunook NC He’s a bird. (Bob McClure) 1956…
running go (also run-ago, run and go, run ’n go, runny go, run to go) noun A running start, leap, or attack on, an energetic charge toward or…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases.…
Last week I received the following message from Fay Nell Pitts: “Hey Tipper, I have meant to write to you…