You All Spoken Here - Brossura

Wilder, Roy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0820320293 ISBN 13: 9780820320298

Casa editrice: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1998

Riassunto

We invite folks from the outer precincts and other foreign parts to lend an ear to what four centuries of southern talk have wrought, Roy Wilder Jr. writes in You All Spoken Here. This delightful book preserves and explains the South's linguistic heritage with some three thousand specimens of the region's most picturesque, metaphorical, and gloriously inventive speech.

iWondering how to make points with your mother? "Don't talk back. Keep the woodbox filled. And don't stake the cow where she can get to wild onions." A sophisticated man "has been places and et in ho-tels." A dependable person "plows a straight furrow and goes to the end of the row."

You All Spoken Here is a marvelously funny piece of southern humor and a language lover's delight.

How to Speak "You All":

• from kin see to cain't see = from dawn to dusk
• light a shuck = make haste
• might can = maybe
• Oklahoma credit card = a siphon hose
• poke = a sack or bag
• saucered and blowed = coffee that's cooled down
• skedaddle = get up and go
• spittin' image = in the spirit and the image

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L'autore

Roy Wilder Jr., is a native of North Carolina, a self-described backsliding Methodist, and a yellow dog Democrat. He has been a war correspondent, a newspaper reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, a political consultant, and an award-winning advertising and public relations man.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Georgia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0820320293
• ISBN 13: 9780820320298
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 215