I’m gonna cook up a mess o’ greens....
A few years back, I was at the warehouse selling my tobacco and a TV crew was there...They interviewed an old mountain farmer who said, “We call it backer (tobacco), but thu city folk call it terbacker...”
I got a kick out of that....*G*
If you haven’t visited Blind Pig & The Acorn, I recommend you to go there for Tipper Pressley’s educational and entertaining series on speaking the language of Southern Appalachia. Start with Speak Like An Appalachian, http://www.blindpigandtheacorn.com/blind_pig_the_acorn/2008/04/speak-like-an-a.html then go to Speak Like An Appalachian II, http://www.blindpigandtheacorn.com/blind_pig_the_acorn/2008/08/speak-like-an-a.html and then work your way through the tests, starting with Appalachian Vocabulary Test http://www.blindpigandtheacorn.com/blind_pig_the_acorn/2008/11/appalachian-vocabulary-test.html and running to the most recent post, Appalachian Vocabulary Test 17 http://www.blindpigandtheacorn.com/blind_pig_the_acorn/2010/03/appalachian-vocabulary-test-17.html Music to my Backcountry-loving ears.
Also, I have two previous FR posts on this topic — http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2469507/posts and http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2470833/posts