Tipper When I was a little girl hiding behind Pap’s britchey legs or Granny’s dress tail someone would say to me: “What’s your name? Puddin Tame? Ask me again and I’ll tell you the same.” I was so backward the teasing only made me try to hide my face deeper in the fabric of their clothes. Here are some other folks’ memories of the saying. Judy Imanse: My mother, who died last year, was 98 years old. She used…
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Appalachian Dialect
Playing at the Hinton Center in Hayesville NC – Summer 2018 It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases.…
In Appalachia we offer advice like this: you might could soak the plants in water to revive them you…
Pap and Granny sitting in their shady backyard of an evening evening adverb The afternoon, the time between the middle…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases.…
By Frank Leslie’s magazine – Library of Congress, Public Domain A few years back Pam Moore told me about a…
Pap and his girls (Chatter, April my niece, Chitter) pap noun A father (in third-person reference and as a form…
“Thinks the sun rises and sets on her/his hind end” is a saying I’ve heard all my life. The saying…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases.…