Photo by NPS Archives “From my first days in the Smokies I listened carefully to all native people I met…
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Appalachian Dialect
“I just want shed of him.” Tipper Overheard: snippets of conversation I overhear in Southern Appalachia Subscribe for FREE and get a…
Years ago at one of my first jobs I worked for a nice lady that was from off somewhere.…
sun ball noun The sun. 1918 Hartt Lost Tribes 396 Let us consider the mountaineers a race apart and dwell…
Chitter and Chatter As you can see from the photo, the girls had some real jaws when they were babies.…
Last week while I was talking about the importance of passing our rich colorful Appalachian Language on to 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.…
lick noun 1 A sharp blow or stroke with the hand or a heavy instrument. 1884 Murfree In Tenn 83…
Tipper at one of Pap’s old homeplaces shackledy, shackley, shackling, shackly adjective Unsteady, shaky, in poor condition, uncertain, of little…
Today’s guest post was written by Jim Casada. Photo from the Dot Weeks collection (Joseph Hall on far left) JOSEPH…