Toboggans…You Wear Them On Your Head Right?
The girls have been crocheting scarves and afghans for several years now, but they recently learned how to make toboggans…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 118 and a Thankful November Giveaway
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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Flinderation?
A few days ago Sanford, a Blind Pig reader sent me the following email: “Have you ever heard anyone use…
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The Way We Talk
Chitter and a new friend have been working on a project for the last few weeks. The sweet girl Chitter…
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Point Blank
The Pressley Girls point blank got to quit carrying their instruments around upside down! point blank A variant forms pime…
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Do You Turn the Light Off or Cut it Off?
Do you turn the light off or cut it off? I cut it off and I cut it on too….
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 117
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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Slang Expletive Words
A few weeks back Blind Pig reader Dana Wall left the following comment: “I am fairly new to this site….
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Being Backwards
Tipper backward adjective Reserved, shy, bashful. 1862 (in 1999 Davis Civil War Letters) 49 if that should be the result…
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Have You Ever Been Qualmish?
Qualmish, adj. Sick at the stomach; inclined to vomit; affected with nausea. ~Virginia Folk-Speech 1899 —- Several years ago I…
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Jelly Bags
“Although you can buy jelly bags, they are easy things to improvise. I always use the washed and bleached out…
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Overheard
“Sounds like they’ve made you the ramrod up there.” —- Tipper Overheard: snippets of conversation I overhear in Southern Appalachia Subscribe for…
