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Editorial Notebook – Say It Loud – NYTimes.com
By Paul | August 23, 2010
“The class assignment for the eighth graders deep in rural Appalachia was to stand up guilt-free about extolling the dialect spoken in their local mountain “hollers.” Sound forth; never mind the “hillbilly” stigma that can especially haunt teenagers. On a visit a decade ago to Ellenboro, W.Va., I delighted to hear Kyre Bartz tell a “handed down” story from her family that flowed with “crick” and “young uns” and “tomorry at sunrise.” It was a lyrical Appalachian aria. Kyre even noted “that ole woman stumblin’ up that there hill with a poke and a pig walkin’ right beside her.”
No one heard the performance better than West Virginia University’s resident linguist, Dr. Kirk Hazen, who has spent years roaming Appalachia to track its richly divergent dialects.”
via Editorial Notebook – Say It Loud – NYTimes.com.
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