It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. Today’s test is of the spooky variety. I’m sharing a few videos…
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Appalachian Dialect
Do you ever get the heebie-jeebies? How about the willies or the all overs? They’re really all the same thing:…
Here’s the most recent sayings my friend Suzann and her mother sent me: She thought she was something on a…
That bucket of water and mud mess they left in the backyard stinks to high heaven. —- The other day…
bird noun A quaint character, comical or remarkable person. 1939 Hall Coll. Saunook NC He’s a bird. (Bob McClure) 1956…
running go (also run-ago, run and go, run ’n go, runny go, run to go) noun A running start, leap, or attack on, an energetic charge toward or…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases.…
Last week I received the following message from Fay Nell Pitts: “Hey Tipper, I have meant to write to you…
A few posts back Blind Pig reader Terry Stites left this comment: “Can anyone help me with a word? Antigodlin,means…
My friend Suzann is always sending me colorful sayings. Suzann and I went to elementary school together and as adults…