Smoky mountain voices : a lexicon of southern Appalachian speech based on the research of Horace Kephart / Harold Farwell, Jr. & J. Karl Nicholas, editors.

Smoky mountain voices : a lexicon of southern Appalachian speech based on the research of Horace Kephart / Harold Farwell, Jr. & J. Karl Nicholas, editors.

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A stingy man ""won't drink branch water till there's a flood, "" and it is ""a mighty triflin' sort o' man'd let either his dog or his woman starve."" Some places are ""so crowded you couldn't cuss a cat without gettin&#...

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Online Access:Electronic book from JSTOR
Other Authors: Kephart, Horace, 1862-1931. Farwell, Harold F., 1934- Nicholas, J. Karl 1939-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1993.
Subjects:
English language > Dialects > Appalachian Region, Southern > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
English language > Dialects > Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.) > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Popular culture > Appalachian Region, Southern > Dictionaries.
Popular culture > Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.) > Dictionaries.
English language > Spoken English > Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)
English language > Spoken English > Appalachian Region, Southern.
Americanisms > Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.) > Dictionaries.
Americanisms > Appalachian Region, Southern > Dictionaries.
Figures of speech.
Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.) > Languages > Dictionaries.
Appalachian Region, Southern > Languages > Dictionaries.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Lexicon of Southern Appalachian Speech; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Bibliographic Note

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