Sherry from Ocean Beach, California, called after watching a PBS documentary about Appalachia and hearing people interviewed use a different pronunciation from the one she grew up with. Both Appa-LATCH-uh and Appa-LAY-shuh are common, and the choice...
If you’ve used the word sickly too many times in a paragraph and need a synonym, there’s always dauncy, also spelled donsie and dauncy. Grant explains the origin of this queasy-sounding word. This is part of a complete episode...
What’s a dittler? What’s a dit? A traveling preacher named Fred says he’s heard these strange terms in parts of Appalachia used to refer to “baby chicks” and “little ducklings.” We share some of our own...
