Kentucky Dialect
- Bub- what you screw into a light fixture
- Error- you shoot this from a bow
- Flow- carpet is layed on this
- Goggles- she goggles her throat wash every morning
- Grind- plants grow out of this
- Hair- where you are
- Lion- what you are doing if you aren’t telling the truth
- Lord- used for frying and baking
- Pears- she pears to be sickly
- Poach- a place to sit and relax
- Skull- what some kids drop out from
- Spell- come sit a spell
- Ward- umpires have the last one
- Badder- worse
- Dogging- to tell a lie
- Eating Table- dinner table
- Everwhich- take everywhich you want
- Everwhat- everwhat you say is fair
- Hurt- I ain’t hurting for food
- Pay No Mind- to pay no attention
- Sop- gravy
- Take down with- become sick
- Unalike- unlike
- Wash-off- bath
Doctor C.V. Heistand was a real country doctor. At age 78, he was still traveling 30,000 miles a year to treat patients in six Kentucky counties and delivered 5,400 babies since 1898. Below are excerpts from a newspaper article by the Courier Journal Frankfort Bureau about his experiences- I believe to be from 1949.
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