Appalachian Vocabulary Test 130
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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Overheard
“I don’t know, but they said he wadn’t no account.” Tipper Overheard: snippets of conversation I overhear in Southern Appalachia Subscribe for…
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Happy Thanksgiving from Brasstown
For the first time we’ll be eating Thanksgiving at my house. Although Granny’s arm has healed from the break it…
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Had Ought To
had ought to verb phrase Should. 1904-7 Kephart Notebooks: 2:399 A feller’d orter have a good crowin’ rooster. 1937 Hall…
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Raising Sheep
“The sheep which were grown years ago for wool were a smaller and hardier strain then the sheep of today….
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Dixie Dew
“One of the finest food-connected advertising slogans I’ve ever encountered adorned jars of a popular brand of cane syrup, Dixie…
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I Heard that Lonesome Whistle Blow
Today’s post was written by Paul. This is our next-to-last video of this year’s train series, another Hank Williams’ song….
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Live at the Folk School
Last week’s concert at the Folk School seemed especially sweet. Maybe it was because Chitter was trying out a new…
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B Vocabulary Words from Appalachian Language
blow-down (n): area where the timber has been leveled by high wind. “There’s a terrible big blow-down on the far…
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Finding Artifacts and Relics on an Appalachian Farm
Photo courtesy of Ben Pope A few months back Ben Pope from History Hound Detecting contacted the girls to see if…
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Thrush Doctors
thrush noun A variant forms thraish, thrash. 1942 Hall Phonetics 23 thraish, thrash B A fungal infection, esp one of…
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Medicine Before Aspirin
“And when my husband was just starting out as a doctor, he was trying to get practice. They used to…
