Country talk sites
Posted by ESC on August 23, 2001
In Reply to: Country talk sites posted by ESC on August 23, 2001
: : : : There's probably a term for these phrases. But I don't know what it would be. I call them country-isms.
: : : : There's a billion books with these sayings. And I'm trying to buy all of them. Listed here are my favorites. I have a couple of "scholarly" ones in addition to these:
: : : : Mountain Range: A Dictionary of Expressions from Appalachia to the Ozarks by Robert Hendrickson....
: : : Thanks, ESC. The books are duly noted. The titles are intriguing.
: : : I've done a Web search or two for a site that collects this kind of stuff, but haven't been very successful. Has anyone found anything like these books mentioned, but in Website form?
: : : - Patty
: : I used to have a bunch of "Favorites." But we had one of those
computer mishaps and they were erased or whatever happens in computerland.
I remember one called Appalachian Talk or something like that. I
couldn't find it but I may have a hard copy of those pages here
somewhere. Here's another site:
: : AmeriSpeak: Expressions of Our American Ancestors
: A Country Rag -- Country Talk www.geocities.com/ ~countryrag/sayings.html
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