Appalachian Vocabulary Test 195
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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Mountain Bald
Southern Appalachian Digital Collections Summer grazing on Mountain BaldPrint by North Carolina Museum of HistoryDate: 1906 baldA adjetive See citationsB…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Snake Spit
When I was a girl the kids in the holler often played outside together in a gang that ranged from…
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Another Lick Example
John C. Campbell Folk School Dairy “Farming today was just as tough then as now. My grandpa in 1932, bought…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 194
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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Usage of the Word Lick
I enjoy discussing the books I read on Fridays at the end of each video, but I always think of…
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Gully Washer in Brasstown
Heavy rain = We had much needed rain in Brasstown yesterday. I swear I could hear the trees, bushes, plants, and…
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Love Many Trust Few
One of my favorite things about the book I’m currently reading on Fridays over on Celebrating Appalachia is the language….
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 193
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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Being Chancy in the Garden
Spring snow 2014 “Spring was chancy, but she liked it best of all the seasons. One day would be still…
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I Saw A Wasper
wasp noun See also jasper.A variant singular forms wasper, wasp.1942 Hall Phonetics 27 wasp, 79 wasper.B variant plural forms was, wasper, waspers, was-pes.1936 LAMSAS waspers (Madison Co NC). c1940 Simms Coll. waspes [i.e., wasps’] nestes. 1942 Hall Phonetics 82 waspers, waspes, was. 1974 Fink Bits Mt Speech 29 waspers. 1983 Pederson East Tn Folk Speech 95 wasper (Cocke Co TN,…
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Hateful = ill in Appalachia
Ill adjective Of a person or an animal: Angry, vicious, harsh (esp in phr ill as a hornet); also used in compounds, as…
