Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 12—The dialect of Appalachia is often regarded by linguists as archaic and, perhaps, a bit odd. The rugged and unique ...

The goal of this project is to create an online corpus of one million words of traditional Appalachian speech, which will be freely available to the scholarly community and to the public. Though often ...

A chat with one of the authors of the ‘Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English.’ accessAtlanta is your weekly podcast about things to do in and around Atlanta and beyond. This week, we’ll talk ...

When Jennifer K.N. Heinmiller inherited the million-word project that would become the “Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English,” its principal author had blown past several deadlines, lost his ...

If you might could be wondering a little about the kind of English spoken in the Appalachians — the kind that includes double modals like “might could” and asks, “Was you wantin’ to go to town?” Well, ...

Appalachian English is a term linguists use to describe the speech patterns of people in Appalachia. It’s also referred to as “mountain talk.” But there’s variation within the dialect, just as there ...

This Midwestern girl was stunned at the response to a recent column I wrote about my first impressions of East Tennessee. One topic struck people in particular: Learning the lingo. I struggled ...

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Hello, I’m Ashley Thompson with VOA Learning English and I’m here today in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The historic town is the halfway point of the 3,400-kilometer-long Appalachian Trail, one of ...