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N THE October 1936 number of American Speech, an article appeared entitled, 'Folk Speech of Middle Tennessee,' in which I listed approximately sixty examples of colloquial and provincial usage of the inhabitants of Middle Tennessee, especially of the mountain regions. The present collection consists of additional words and expressions which, with the help of friends and of students attending the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute, I have gathered during the years 1937 and 1938. I have tried to record all of the distinctive peculiarities to which my attention has been directed, but I realize that this collection is by no means exhaustive. Some of the expressions are or have been current in other regions and have only the interest of old-fashioned American speech on a low colloquial level. Other expressions seem to me peculiar to this district or perhaps to the Southern mountains. I have listed only those expressions which have been reported to me by at least five persons living in as many different counties of the mountain regions of the state. An illustrative sentence follows each definition in order to show more |
