They!
They! Look at the yellow root a growing. Several weeks ago Sandra sent me the following email. Today someone said,…
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Learning New Words
Tipper a true raconteur I was recently chided for saying things like okry, tater, and mater in my videos. Anyone…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 160
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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Maters Almost Gone
It’s beyond common to hear folks in my area say mater for tomato. Usually the word mater is in reference…
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Growing Bakies
bakie (also bake) noun A baking squash.1976 Garber Mountain-ese 5 We raised ten bushels uv bakies in our garden this…
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Putting Up Food this Summer
My hands have been busy putting up food from our garden. They usually are this time of the year, but…
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Grasshopper Grasshopper Give a Little Jerk
I can’t think of anything that hasn’t been covered already but it did make me think of something that was…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 159
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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Ya’ll Come See Us
I’m bad t’ come out with that word [ruint]. “That youngun is pure ruint.” (spoiled rotten) Once, I was visiting with…
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Make Water
“I immediately thought of my grandpa who said someone had to “make water” when they needed to go to the…
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What is a Tommy-toe?
On a recent post Peggy asked what a tommy-toe was. Here’s the definition: tommytoe noun A small salad tomato, cherry…
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Dry Dog Days
My mother spoke of dry Dog Days and wet Dog Days. During dry Dog Days it was so hot and…
