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. Smoky Mountain Voices is a dictionary of Southern Appalachian speech based on Kephart's journals and publications; it is also a compendium of mountain ...
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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' 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. Smoky Mountain Voices is a dictionary of Southern Appalachian speech based on Kephart's journals and publications; it is also a compendium of mountain lore. Harold Farwell and J. Karl Nicholas have compiled not only quaint and peculiar words, but jokes and comic exchanges. Many of the ordinary words that comprised an important part of the language of the mountaineers are preserved here thanks to Kephart's meticulous collecting. Smoky Mountain Voices will be of interest to dialectologists, historians of American English, students of regional literature, scholars of folk life, and lay-persons interested in Southern Appalachia.
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Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; The textblock edges are unblemished; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5"-9.75" tall); Red and black dust jacket with title in red and white lettering; 1993, The University Press of Kentucky; 200 pages; "Smoky Mountain Voices: A Lexicon of Southern Appalachian Speech Based on the Research of Horace Kephart, " by Harold F. Farwell & J. Karl Nicholas.
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VG to VG- in VG- jacket. DJ: some rubbing & edgewear; small creases/chips/closed tears at edges/corners; foxing/duststaining (mostly on inner side). Book: some rubbing & edgewear; some duststaining on edges; some yellowing; otherwise overall clean & tight. 191 pages.