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Title Smoky mountain voices : a lexicon of southern Appalachian speech based on the research of Horace Kephart / Harold Farwell, Jr. & J. Karl Nicholas, editors
Published Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1993

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 191 pages)
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-191)
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Subject 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.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Reference.
Americanisms
English language -- Dialects
English language -- Spoken English
Figures of speech
Language and languages
Popular culture
Woordenschat.
SUBJECT Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.) -- Languages -- Dictionaries
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Languages -- Dictionaries
Subject Southern Appalachian Region
United States -- Great Smoky Mountains
Genre/Form Dictionaries
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Kephart, Horace, 1862-1931.
Farwell, Harold F., 1934-
Nicholas, J. Karl (James Karl), 1939-
ISBN 9780813148007
0813148006