On July 24, 2019 Michael Montgomery passed away. When it comes to the preservation of Appalachian culture and heritage…
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Appalachian Dialect
The nice lady who shares my office has only lived in Appalachia for about three years. She enjoys reading the…
Sometimes in Appalachia we like to ad ‘ed’ to words that don’t need them. Examples that come to mind: I…
Ed Ammons left the following comment on last week’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. “Nowthen there’s a Case and there’s a case…
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 Nancy Scott Beach sent me the following question on the Blind Pig and The Acorn’s Facebook…
Chitter – Late Winter 2019 weed dust noun Pollen. 1966 Dykeman Far Family 273 Instead, she walked on through the…
all three adjective phrase variant syntactic position after nouns or pronouns modified. 1937 Hall Coll. Emerts Cove TN You can’t…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases.…
Chitter is plumb foolish about the creek In the last few weeks two readers have emailed me with the suggestion…