Despite being five generations removed from my Tennessee ancestor, I still grew up learning to use many of those words…

Yesterday I walked down to the big garden about dusky dark. Our drought like weather has left like a stranger…

In a recent video I said our trip to find Daniel Boone Cornmeal was a burnt run. Several folks commented…

It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases….

Miss Cindy is the first person I ever heard say scat or scat there when someone sneezed. When the girls…

Tipper, Pap, Steve, Paul, & The Deer Hunter at Pap’s big garden June 2013 I was flipping through the Dictionary…

I grew up in Carter County, Tennessee. Both my father and mother used the word “juberous” often.(Apparently there were a…

plumb A adjective Complete, thorough, absolute.1895 Edson and Fairchild Tenn Mts 373 = excellent. “If I hed your gun, I’d hev plum fun.” 1904-7 Kephart Notebooks 2:367 Them hogs are…

It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases….

Chatter and Chitter A few weeks back a dear lady named Brenda sent me a newspaper clipping she found in…