Oct. 12—The dialect of Appalachia is often regarded by linguists as archaic and, perhaps, a bit odd. The rugged and unique language displays the remnants of the Scotch-Irish travelers and other ...

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 ...

Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Days will be a week-long celebration of Southern Appalachian culture, featuring a lecture on the Appalachian dialect, the annual Rooted in the Mountains ...

Carolyn Krause brings us an alarmingly simple but profound observation about our region of Appalachia. At a recent Oak Ridge Institute for Continued Learning class, Harry Moore and Fred Brown brought ...