Smoky mountain voices :: a lexicon of southern Appalachian speech based on the research of Horace Kephart /

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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Weitere Verfasser: Kephart, Horace, 1862-1931, Farwell, Harold F., 1934-, Nicholas, J. Karl (James Karl), 1939-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1993.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 191 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-191).
ISBN:9780813148007
0813148006

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