Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English / Michael B. Montgomery and Joseph S. Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montgomery, Michael, 1950-2019.

Contributor:

Hall, Joseph S. (Joseph Sargent), 1906-1992.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Dialects--Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

English language.

English language--Dialects.

Americanisms.

Americanisms--Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)--Dictionaries.

Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)--Dictionaries.

Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.).

Genre:

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

lxxx, 710 pages : map ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2004]

Summary:

Often considered merely a repository of archaic or even Elizabethan English, the language of southern Appalachia represents a distinctive American dialect that is both conservative and innovative. This dictionary marks the first comprehensive, historical record of the traditional speech of this region. Focusing on the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee and western North Carolina, it features more than six thousand names, usages, meanings, and folk expressions that are found in the region, exemplified by more than fifteen thousand documented quotations.

Notes:

Map on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 692-710).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1572332220

OCLC:

52424041