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
A few days ago Sanford, a Blind Pig reader sent me the following email: “Have you ever heard anyone use…
Chitter and a new friend have been working on a project for the last few weeks. The sweet girl Chitter…
The Pressley Girls point blank got to quit carrying their instruments around upside down! point blank A variant forms pime…
Do you turn the light off or cut it off? I cut it off and I cut it on too.…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases.…
A few weeks back Blind Pig reader Dana Wall left the following comment: “I am fairly new to this site.…
Tipper backward adjective Reserved, shy, bashful. 1862 (in 1999 Davis Civil War Letters) 49 if that should be the result…
Qualmish, adj. Sick at the stomach; inclined to vomit; affected with nausea. ~Virginia Folk-Speech 1899 —- Several years ago I…
“Although you can buy jelly bags, they are easy things to improvise. I always use the washed and bleached out…