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HARTS HIGH SCHOOL | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Lincoln County ,West Virginia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Our guide to Harts Creek dialect,superstitions,and expressions. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language is one of the factors that distinguishes one culture from another. As with all cultures,we in Harts ,have oun own regional dialect . Many persons have tried to imitate our speech in various medias,but it is a blend of Scotch-Irish, German, and Elizabethan...not unlike the language spoken in William Shakespeare's day. We do not know the origin of many of our words.Sometimes we just speak using "plain Hillbilly" ! We do,however, understand the fact that our sub-culture of Harts,has its own variations of the Appalachian dialects,so we've designed this brief guide. |
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EXPRESSIONS and SUPERSTITIONS | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pretty " purty' sink "zink" or sank" wash "warsh" rinse " wranch" window "winder" tomato "'mater" hollow "holler" crayfish "crawdead" minnow " minner" legs "laigs" egg "agg" aught "ort" fire "far" at all "a'tal" school "skew" refrigerator "Frigidar" you all " y'all" ink "ank" iron "arn" far "fir" ask "ax" there "yonder"or "thar" not one "narry" potato " tater" sack to carry something in "poke" Harold "Herald" (a name) Sara/Sarah " Serrie" Eric " Erek" On my honor "'pon my honor" drink "drank" vulgar " vulgary" a large biscuit "cats' head" |
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More stubborn than a bank mule Colder than a witch's tit rough as a cob madder than a wet hen crazy as a "bess" bug sicker than a dog runnin' around like a chicken with its head cut off If you dream of a birth someone in your family will die If you dream of a death someone in your family will have a baby If you dream of snakes it means you have enemies If a bird flies inside your house,someone in your family will die If you drop a dish towel,someone is going to drop by and visit If you see an owl in the day time,it's a sign of death If your foot itches,you're going to walk on strange ground If your ear feels hot,someone is talking about you An old home remedy for asthma is to cut a hickory stick the height of the child with asthma and nail it over the door A remedy for colic is to find a man who is the seventh son of the seventh son to blow smoke under the baby's clothes |
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