Archive for ‘August 3rd, 2009’

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Aug03

Southern Appalachian English from the University of South Carolina

by Rusty on August 3rd, 2009 at 1:53 pm

I don't want to take away from Gabriel's great story, but I had to post this, which is a nifty resource for hear­ing Appalachian speech (if you don't already live there or don't hear it reg­u­larly). Wel­come to this web­site on the speech of one of America's most often mis­un­der­stood regions — south­ern and cen­tral […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Aug03

Dig Well, by Gabriel Orgrease

by Rusty on August 3rd, 2009 at 5:02 am

For all the wells which his father's ser­vants had digged in the days of Abra­ham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth. Gen­e­sis 26:15 Damn, I hate August… hot, humid, stink­ing dead days entombed in bore­dom. Dead sum­mer, an armpit-perspiring stink. Worm fod­der dol­drums. August here is a burn­ing pis­s­hole. Dis­cussed […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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