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You All Spoken Here

You All Spoken Here

Wilder, Roy, Jr.

Paperback

Series: Brown Thrasher Books

HumorLinguisticsGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0820320293
ISBN13: 9780820320298
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Sep 1 1998
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.46 Depth: 8.48
Language: English

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.

Wondering 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 dusklight a shuck = make hastemight can = maybeOklahoma credit card = a siphon hosepoke = a sack or bagsaucered and blowed = coffee that's cooled downskedaddle = get up and gospittin' image = in the spirit and the image

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