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

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ISBN 10: 0813118239 ISBN 13: 9780813118239

Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Kentucky, 1993

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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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• Editore: Univ Pr of Kentucky
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0813118239
• ISBN 13: 9780813118239
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 191
• Redattore: Kephart Horace, Nicholas J. Karl, Farwell Harold F. Jr.