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 May 28, 2020 at 6:08am PDT 1. Hand: reference to an individual’s skill, suitability, or desire for a certain activity. “He’s a good hand at most anything. Why he’s the most useful person I know to have around when…
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Appalachian Dialect
laurel hell noun A dense growth of laurel (i.e. rhododendron) 1977 Hamilton Mountain Memories 48 Far back in the big…
Blackberries blooming behind the chicken coop Blackberry winter arrived in Brasstown this week. This morning we woke up to a…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases.…
“Along with milk and eggs, vegetables were an integral part of our diet in the mountains. The vegetables most commonly…
corduroy road noun 1995 Weber Rugged Hills 83 When the ground was flat, it was hard for the team to…
At the end of last week dogwood winter came to my area of Appalachia. We had frost and temps 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.…
Over the last two weeks we’ve had several days of snow, but none of them have been more than a…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases.…