Bits of Mountain Speech

by Paul M Fink

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469638193
• ISBN13: 9781469638195
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Appalachian State University
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"