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Smoky Mountain Voices : A Lexicon of Southern Appalachian Speech Based on the Research of Horace Kephart / Harold Farwell, Jr. & J. Karl Nicholas, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Figures of speech.
- Americanisms--Appalachian Region, Southern--Dictionaries.
- Americanisms.
- Americanisms--Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)--Dictionaries.
- English language--Spoken English--Appalachian Region, Southern.
- English language.
- English language--Spoken English--Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.).
- Popular culture--Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)--Dictionaries.
- Popular culture.
- Popular culture--Appalachian Region, Southern--Dictionaries.
- English language--Dialects--Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- English language--Dialects--Appalachian Region, Southern--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Appalachian Region, Southern--Languages--Dictionaries.
- Appalachian Region, Southern.
- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)--Languages--Dictionaries.
- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (200 p.)
- Edition:
- Paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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' fur in your mouth."" For almost thirty years Horace Kephart collected sayings like these from his neighbors and friends in the area around Bryson City, North Carolina.Kephart, a librarian with an interest in languages and in the American Frontier, left his career and his family in midlife to settle in what was at the turn of the century the wilds of the Great Smokey Mountains. A
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-191).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8131-9334-6
- 0-8131-4800-6
- OCLC:
- 607752123
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