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
round robin noun 1995 Adams Come Go Home 81 [Granny] would call up and order me to her house to…
Long time Blind Pig reader and family friend Lonnie Dockery – Swain County NC Granny used to accuse Pap of…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases.…
skiff noun A thin layer, small amount (esp in phr skiff/skift of snow = a light fall of snow). 1834…
scat, scat cat interjection Bless you! (a response to another person’s sneeze). 1983 Broaddus Kentucky Word List 54 = said…
In Appalachia you’ll often hear folks adding unusual suffixes to their words. Here’s a few examples. -ified fightified girlified prettified…
A swag above the house a ways A few weeks back Ron Stephens left the following comment: “I wondered the…
Granny and Chatter It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the…
I started writing this post way back in 2015 when Ed and Dan sent me the following questions: Question one…