“We haven’t had a good dialect thread in a while...post your southernisms”
here’s one...the preacher will now “make prayer” instead of saying the preacher will now ‘pray’
here’s another....Jim Wilson is the ‘high sheriff’ of Ashe County
my neighbor makes his sour kraut when ‘the signs’ are right...that means the points of the moon are up.
Stonewalls, who lives deep in the mountains of North Carolina
My grampa always skinned the bark off his apple trees when the signs were right. I know from college that trees can’t survive when they lose their bark. He always had the healthiest apple trees you ever saw.
There was an apple tree called Crow Eggs that yielded the best tasting apples ever. They were egg-shaped apples.