Eastern North Carolina Sayings

Author : Philip L. Beaman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781625846419

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Eastern North Carolina Sayings by Philip L. Beaman Pdf

Growing up on a farm in the heart of eastern North Carolina's tobacco country, author Phil Beaman has been surrounded by country folk and their colorful language his entire life. Though these communities continue to change, the bond of their phrases, expressions, colloquialisms and just plain talk has remained within the hearts and minds of their people. Beaman chronicles this language in a humorous and fascinating collection of eastern North Carolina's most down-home sayings. Everything from the weather to drunken sayings to gobbledygook is presented straight from the horse's mouth. You may not know how to pronounce some of the words, but you will surely enjoy a trip back to the halcyon days of livin' off the land and chewin' the fat..

Author : Michael B. Montgomery,Jennifer K. N. Heinmiller
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 3218 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781469662558

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Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English by Michael B. Montgomery,Jennifer K. N. Heinmiller Pdf

The Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English is a revised and expanded edition of the Weatherford Award–winning Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English, published in 2005 and known in Appalachian studies circles as the most comprehensive reference work dedicated to Appalachian vernacular and linguistic practice. Editors Michael B. Montgomery and Jennifer K. N. Heinmiller document the variety of English used in parts of eight states, ranging from West Virginia to Georgia—an expansion of the first edition's geography, which was limited primarily to North Carolina and Tennessee—and include over 10,000 entries drawn from over 2,200 sources. The entries include approximately 35,000 citations to provide the reader with historical context, meaning, and usage. Around 1,600 of those examples are from letters written by Civil War soldiers and their family members, and another 4,000 are taken from regional oral history recordings. Decades in the making, the Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English surpasses the original by thousands of entries. There is no work of this magnitude available that so completely illustrates the rich language of the Smoky Mountains and Southern Appalachia.

Author : Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore,Frank Clyde Brown,North Carolina Folklore Society
Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Folk-songs, American
ISBN : UVA:X000099767

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The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore: Games and rhymes. Beliefs and customs. Riddles. Proverbs. Speech. Tales and legends by Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore,Frank Clyde Brown,North Carolina Folklore Society Pdf

Author : Walt Wolfram,Jeffrey Reaser
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469614366

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Talkin' Tar Heel by Walt Wolfram,Jeffrey Reaser Pdf

Talkin' Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina

Author : Anand Prahlad
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : African American proverbs
ISBN : 1604737697

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African-American Proverbs in Context by Anand Prahlad Pdf

A groundbreaking study of proverbs in African-American speech from slave times to the present.

Author : Mim Harrison
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781101543399

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Wicked Good Words by Mim Harrison Pdf

How to sound like you're from here, no matter where you are in America "Simultaneously full of witty asides and linguistic erudition, Wicked Good Words is one of those rare books that you will read too fast and will find yourself wishing you could read for the first time all over again." -Ammon Shea, author of Reading the OED "As someone who grew up in the land of wicked pissa Sox games, what a delight it was to read about alligator pears, sundogs, piggling, sad cakes, doodinkus, jacklegs, and so many other American regionalisms." -David Wolman, author of Righting the Mother Tongue Wicked Good Words is a collection of words and phrases from places across the United States. Organized by region and peppered with engaging sidebars, it's a uniquely American road trip. You'll discover: *In Ohio, that titillating talk about a four-way is all about a type of chili. *When you rush the growler in Appalachia, you're filling your lunch pail with beer. *A frog strangler in the South will send you running for cover: it's a heavy rain. *In Louisiana and Texas, someone caught pirooting is nosing around. *In the Northwest, something that's spendy is too expensive. *A skeeter hawk, darning needle, snake feeder, spindle, ear sewer, needle, snake doctor, and stinger all refer to the same thing: a mosquito, depending on where you get attacked.

Author : Hani Khafipour
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 1103 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231547840

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The Empires of the Near East and India by Hani Khafipour Pdf

In the early modern world, the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal empires sprawled across a vast swath of the earth, stretching from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. The diverse and overlapping literate communities that flourished in these three empires left a lasting legacy on the political, religious, and cultural landscape of the Near East and India. This volume is a comprehensive sourcebook of newly translated texts that shed light on the intertwined histories and cultures of these communities, presenting a wide range of source material spanning literature, philosophy, religion, politics, mysticism, and visual art in thematically organized chapters. Scholarly essays by leading researchers provide historical context for closer analyses of a lesser-known era and a framework for further research and debate. The volume aims to provide a new model for the study and teaching of the region’s early modern history that stands in contrast to the prevailing trend of examining this interconnected past in isolation.

Author : Henry Woods
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781447485698

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American Sayings - Famous Phrases, Slogans And Aphorisms by Henry Woods Pdf

America has a rich history of creating unique sayings and phrases, here are collected some of the finest. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : William L. Andrews
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780807877050

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The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature by William L. Andrews Pdf

The first African American to publish a book in the South, the author of the first female slave narrative in the United States, the father of black nationalism in America--these and other founders of African American literature have a surprising connection to one another: they all hailed from the state of North Carolina. This collection of poetry, fiction, autobiography, and essays showcases some of the best work of eight influential African American writers from North Carolina during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In his introduction, William L. Andrews explores the reasons why black North Carolinians made such a disproportionate contribution (in quantity and lasting quality) to African American literature as compared to that of other southern states with larger African American populations. The authors in this anthology parlayed both the advantages and disadvantages of their North Carolina beginnings into sophisticated perspectives on the best and the worst of which humanity, in both the South and the North, was capable. They created an African American literary tradition unrivaled by that of any other state in the South. Writers included here are Charles W. Chesnutt, Anna Julia Cooper, David Bryant Fulton, George Moses Horton, Harriet Jacobs, Lunsford Lane, Moses Roper, and David Walker.

Author : Mineke Schipper,Wilhelmina Janneke Josepha Schipper
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300102496

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Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet by Mineke Schipper,Wilhelmina Janneke Josepha Schipper Pdf

In this study the author analyses similarities, differences and contradictions in the cultural norms about gender expressed in proverbs she has found in oral and written sources from over 150 countries. Grouping the proverbs into categories as the female body, love, sex, childbirth and the female power, the author examines shared patterns in ideas about women and how men see them.

Author : Anand Prahlad
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Proverbs, Jamaican
ISBN : 1604736593

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Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music by Anand Prahlad Pdf

In "Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music" Swami Anand Prahlad looks at the contexts and origins of these proverbs, using them as a cultural sheet music toward understanding the history of Jamaican culture, Rastafari religion, and the music that isthat culture's worldwide voice.

Author : Michael Montgomery
Publisher : Ulster Historical Foundation
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1903688612

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From Ulster to America by Michael Montgomery Pdf

From Ulster to America documents nearly four hundred terms and meanings-- each with quotations from both sides of the Atlantic--contributed to American English by these eighteenth-century settlers from Ulster. Drawing on letters they sent back to their homeland and on other archival documents associated with their settlement, it shows that Ulster emigrants and their children contributed as much to regional American English as any other group. The numerous quotations bring alive the speech of earlier days on both sides of the Atlantic, and extend understanding of the culture, mannerisms, and life of those pioneering times.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Folklore
ISBN : UVA:X004840014

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North Carolina Folklore by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112109516598

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The Weekly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter J. Robinson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781469625935

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North Carolina Weather and Climate by Peter J. Robinson Pdf

From blue skies to raging hurricanes, from ice storms to droughts, North Carolina's weather varies widely from season to season and from day to day. In this delightful and informative book, Peter Robinson provides a layperson's guide to the state's weather and climate and an introduction to the science that describes it. What is North Carolina's "typical" weather? How does it vary from the coast to the mountains? How do we forecast it? With dozens of color maps and tables to make understanding easier, Robinson covers big issues such as the role of weather and climate in daily life, severe weather threats and their causes, and the meteorological effects of seasons. He also explains more specific phenomena including the causes of heating and cooling, the effects of acid rain, and the role of groundwater in weather. Robinson addresses the state's weather history as well as long-term concerns associated with how air pollution affects weather and our health, and he explores why issues of local and global climate change matter. Throughout, he discusses weather in ways that can inform daily life, whether you're planting a garden, building a climate-friendly and energy-efficient home, or choosing a time and place for vacation.