Mountain-ese
Subtitle: basic grammar for Appalachia
By: by Aubrey Garber.
Publisher: Commonwealth Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Radford, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 105
Subjects: English language -- Dialects -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Popular culture -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Dictionaries.; Americanisms -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Dictionaries.; Appalachian Region, Southern -- Languages -- Dictionaries.
Description: ""Mountain-ese" is a glossary of words and phrases, used extensively by mountain and country folk, mainly in the rural sections of America called Appalachia. These terms fall chiefly into three categories: words and phrases that are grossly and continuously mispronounced from gereration to generation, verbs that are used as nouns or nouns and adjectives used as verbs, and words or phrases that have been coined and used repeatedly by mountain people, with little or no relation to authentic definitions."--Preface