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HARTS HIGH SCHOOL
Lincoln County ,West Virginia
Our guide to Harts Creek dialect,superstitions,and expressions.
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.
EXPRESSIONS  and SUPERSTITIONS
WORDS
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"
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