The Best of 2024: Highlights Part 2

01/10/25 • 31 min

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Listen to more of the best clips from 2024's podcast episode, including:

Jack Beck talking about the influence of Scots Gaelic;
Jane Hicks reading from her book of poetry, The Safety of Small Things;
The origins of the word "redneck,";
A conversation with Hillbilly documentary director Ashley York;
Adriana Trigiani on what it means to be Appalachian;
Appalshop and 50 years of storytelling about the region;
A conversation with the editors of Appalachian Reckoning and what it means to keep our authentic voices;
Mourning and death rituals with Burke Greear;
"Needs washed" and "directly";
Washington Irving's connection to Appalachia, and a mailbox by the sea;
the tradition of the "Christmas poke" in Appalachia

Music courtesy of: Tiffany Williams, Jack Beck, Andy Bracken, and Appalshop archives

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What did you think of this episode?

Listen to more of the best clips from 2024's podcast episode, including:

Jack Beck talking about the influence of Scots Gaelic;
Jane Hicks reading from her book of poetry, The Safety of Small Things;
The origins of the word "redneck,";
A conversation with Hillbilly documentary director Ashley York;
Adriana Trigiani on what it means to be Appalachian;
Appalshop and 50 years of storytelling about the region;
A conversation with the editors of Appalachian Reckoning and what it means to keep our authentic voices;
Mourning and death rituals with Burke Greear;
"Needs washed" and "directly";
Washington Irving's connection to Appalachia, and a mailbox by the sea;
the tradition of the "Christmas poke" in Appalachia

Music courtesy of: Tiffany Williams, Jack Beck, Andy Bracken, and Appalshop archives

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The Best of 2024: Highlight Clips from Selected Episodes

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This episode includes highlights from some of the best episodes of 2024, which include:

my interview with Pulitzer-winning reporter and memoirist Rick Bragg;
a study of two letters written a century apart and their dialect similarities;
what I learned about an ancient Pictish language during a visit to Ireland;
my interview with co-researcher Will Isom and the story of a mysterious burial ground;
the fight to save the Cherokee language from extinction
and the one and only Barbara Kingsolver, author of the Pulitzer-winning book Demon Copperhead.

I hope you enjoy Part I of 2024's highlights!

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"Here's you a piece of pizza": a common grammar pattern in the South, and Wool as a Verb

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"Here's you a piece of pizza. Where's me some silverware? There's us a table." We'll talk about this common grammar pattern and where it's spoken. Then, we'll switch to the word "wool," a word used as a verb in vernacular southern Englishes since the 19th century, as in, "The little boy is wooling that kitten."
Research for this episode comes from the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project and Dictionary of American Regional English.

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