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Appalachian Consortium Press
Appalachian dialect
Author_Paul M. Fink
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Category=CFF
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folk speech
North Carolina dialect
Tennessee dialect
Product details
- ISBN 9781469638195
- Weight: 70g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1974
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Paul Fink's Bits of Mountain Speech is a dictionary of ""folk speech."" In this work Fink has provided a glossary of terms that are often considered the language of the less educated people of the mountains of Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee. They are sometimes archaic, sometimes quaint, and almost always idiomatic. The language Fink examines is a holdover of earlier times when the Scots, Irish, and Welsh settled the region, therefore many of the pronunciations are reminiscent of Celtic languages. Not only does he list unusual words that he has come across, but he also uses them in sentences in order to interpret the word or phrase and clarify its meaning.
