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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Appalachian Dialect
Lay by verb phrase To leave a crop to mature after hoeing it for a final time late in the…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases.…
Sometimes an old saying bubbles up from my consciousness and flows straight out of my mouth. I always wonder why…
flag, flag lily noun An iris (Iris prismatica). 1995-97 Montgomery Coll. flag (Ellis); flag lily (Adams, Brown, Cardwell, Norris, Oliver).…
“Momma filled up baskets with them, and sat them everywhere in the house, mostly in front of open windows. She…
dope noun Any flavored carbonated drink, not only a cola. Same as soda dope. c1959 Weals Hillbilly Dic 3 =…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases.…
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…