Love Many Trust Few
One of my favorite things about the book I’m currently reading on Fridays over on Celebrating Appalachia is the language….
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 193
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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Being Chancy in the Garden
Spring snow 2014 “Spring was chancy, but she liked it best of all the seasons. One day would be still…
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I Saw A Wasper
wasp noun See also jasper.A variant singular forms wasper, wasp.1942 Hall Phonetics 27 wasp, 79 wasper.B variant plural forms was, wasper, waspers, was-pes.1936 LAMSAS waspers (Madison Co NC). c1940 Simms Coll. waspes [i.e., wasps’] nestes. 1942 Hall Phonetics 82 waspers, waspes, was. 1974 Fink Bits Mt Speech 29 waspers. 1983 Pederson East Tn Folk Speech 95 wasper (Cocke Co TN,…
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Hateful = ill in Appalachia
Ill adjective Of a person or an animal: Angry, vicious, harsh (esp in phr ill as a hornet); also used in compounds, as…
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Green Up in April
green up, green-up time noun Springtime.1976 Dwyer Southern Sayin’s 23 = springtime. “It’s comin’ green up.” 1991 Haynes Haywood Home 56 Springtime, just at green-up time, was the time for making popguns…
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Inside Outwards
I wear an old sweater or cardigan around the house. I probably take it off and put it on a…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 192
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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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Matt Har’d the Garden
Matt got the big garden har’d this week. Seeing all that rich dirt turned over makes me anxious for planting…
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March 4th (Forth) – 2026
Year’s ago Blind Pig reader Kenneth Roper shared the story of his mother telling him and his brothers that March…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 191
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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Cleaning Up the Hurrah’s Nest
hurrah’s nest nounA Variant form hoorah’s nest. (see 1956 in B).B A place or thing in complete disorder or confusion.1940 Haun Hawk’s Done 74 [She] said the…
