Smoky Mountain Voices : A Lexicon of Southern Appalachian Speech Based on the Research of Horace Kephart /

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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&#...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Nicholas, J. Karl (James Karl), 1939-, Farwell, Harold F., 1934-, Kephart, Horace, 1862-1931
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1993.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Woordenschat.
Popular culture.
Language and languages.
Figures of speech.
English language > Spoken English.
English language > Dialects.
Americanisms.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Reference.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Anglais (Langue) > Anglais parle > Appalaches (Sud)
Anglais (Langue) > Anglais parle > Great Smoky, Monts (Car. du N. et Tenn.)
Anglais (Langue) > Dialectes > Great Smoky, Monts (Car. du N. et Tenn.) > Glossaires, vocabulaires, etc.
Anglais (Langue) > Dialectes > Appalaches (Sud) > Glossaires, vocabulaires, etc.
Americanisms > Appalachian Region, Southern > Dictionaries.
Americanisms > Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.) > Dictionaries.
English language > Spoken English > Appalachian Region, Southern.
English language > Spoken English > Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)
Popular culture > Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.) > Dictionaries.
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.
United States > Great Smoky Mountains.
Southern Appalachian Region.
Appalachian Region, Southern > Languages > Dictionaries.
Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.) > Languages > Dictionaries.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Dictionaries.
Electronic books.
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (200 pages).
ISBN:9780813148007

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