Last week Joe Chumlea left this comment: “Have you ever heard the term “red off”, as in when I was…
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Appalachian Dialect
Here while back, Ed Ammons sent me the following email. “I just remember a phrase I hadn’t heard in forever…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases.…
Several folks found Lyndall “Granny” Toothman’s use of the word pummy interesting in my Dandelion Salad at Christmas post. I…
We had some extry good eating at Thanksgiving. Extry was a word Pap used often. Francis Cook says it too.…
Have you ever heard of a Methodist measure? I had never heard the phrase until Michael Montgomery sent me 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.…
had ought to verb phrase Should. 1904-7 Kephart Notebooks: 2:399 A feller’d orter have a good crowin’ rooster. 1937 Hall…
blow-down (n): area where the timber has been leveled by high wind. “There’s a terrible big blow-down on the far…
A few months back Garland sent me the following comment: I have seen you use the word cove from time…