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You All Spoken Here (Brown Thrasher Books) - Softcover

Wilder, Roy

 
9780820320298: You All Spoken Here (Brown Thrasher Books)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0820320293 ISBN 13: 9780820320298
Verlag: University of Georgia Press, 1998

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We invite folks from the outer precincts and other foreign parts to lend an ear to what four centuries of southern talk have wrought, Roy Wilder Jr. writes in You All Spoken Here. This delightful book preserves and explains the South's linguistic heritage with some three thousand specimens of the region's most picturesque, metaphorical, and gloriously inventive speech.

iWondering how to make points with your mother? "Don't talk back. Keep the woodbox filled. And don't stake the cow where she can get to wild onions." A sophisticated man "has been places and et in ho-tels." A dependable person "plows a straight furrow and goes to the end of the row."

You All Spoken Here is a marvelously funny piece of southern humor and a language lover's delight.

How to Speak "You All":

  • from kin see to cain't see = from dawn to dusk
  • light a shuck = make haste
  • might can = maybe
  • Oklahoma credit card = a siphon hose
  • poke = a sack or bag
  • saucered and blowed = coffee that's cooled down
  • skedaddle = get up and go
  • spittin' image = in the spirit and the image

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Roy Wilder Jr., is a native of North Carolina, a self-described backsliding Methodist, and a yellow dog Democrat. He has been a war correspondent, a newspaper reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, a political consultant, and an award-winning advertising and public relations man.

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Verlag
University of Georgia Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0820320293
ISBN 13 
9780820320298
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
215
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