Some of These Days
some of these days (also some of these times) adverb phrase Someday, sometime, one day coming.1863 Tesch CW Letters (Dec…
some of these days (also some of these times) adverb phrase Someday, sometime, one day coming.1863 Tesch CW Letters (Dec…
Wasper Like most mountain boys I got eat up with waspers, gaugeing their nests off old barns and houses lookin’…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases….
Yesterday Andy Davis left the following comment on an old post. A dear friend just passed away in NC. On…
butter bean noun A small lima bean.1949 Kurath Word Geog East US 73 Butter beans is a common expression for…
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases….
It has been hot in Brasstown! Seems like only yesterday I was wondering when summer and hot weather would ever…
Volunteer cabbage plant volunteerA nounOften used attributively: an unsown plant or crop of vegetables or grain that comes up from…
grab, grabble, gravel verbTo dig up with the hands, esp a potato early in the season, and smooth back the dirt around the…
Our tomatoes are coming in like crazy for us, especially the tommy-toes. If you’re unfamiliar with that type of tomato…
Dog days started on July 3 and I’ve been hearing folks talk about them. Day before yesterday Granny asked me…
If I’m a lying, I’m a dying!He’s a bald face liar and the truth ain’t in him.Mammy used to say,…