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How They Pleasured Themselves In "Poetic Drama in the Kentucky Mountains" ( The Literary Digest, January 26, 1924) Percy MacKaye perhaps made as fine and sympathetic a statement about the Southern Highlander as one could wish for. It was this: work of the soil synthetic of its development of mind and body, and during the winter they are intensively tutored in that unsurpassed college of oral imagination--the winter logfire: a college also of nobly simple good manners and gracious hospitality. The mountain children are reared most of the year in the out-door, all-round In Rustic Speech and Folklore Elizabeth Mary Wright counters the belief that folk or dialect speech is corrupt and ungrammatical by stating that the dialect speakers obey sound laws and grammatical rules more faithfully than others because their obedience is natural and unconscious. She also says that the "rustic's" vocabulary is far from has over five thousand pages and a tremendous number of expressions for the same idea. There are "one thousand and three hundred ways of telling a person he is a fool." the limited one many suppose it to be by explaining that the English Dialect Dictionary Well, so much by way of
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jan 8, 1974
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