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From: "Jerry & Nancy Thompson" <>
Subject: Re: [MOMILLER-L] language
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:10:47 -0600
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When I was a child our family spent a great deal of time camping and fishing
the creeks of Miller County. One of my father's favorites was near the
confluence of the Barn and Brushy. Only within the last 10-15 years did I
learn that the "Barn" was properly pronounced barren.
Nancy
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Subject: [MOMILLER-L] language


> My mother, born in 1904 in Miller County, MO went to St. Louis to nursing
> school about 1926. She took with her one of her relative's sayings: a
poke was
> a paper sack. She went to the grocery store, and told the boy to put the
> items in a poke. He said, "Poke what??"
>
> Her grandmother was Arvazena Jarrett Hensley. Her father had come from
> Lincoln County, NC and mother from Tennessee. She said "piezen" for
poison. Once,
> when out in NC I got a little pamphlet that said that this was the
"Queen's
> English". In other words, that it was from the "cockney" or peasant class
in
> England.
>
> Has anyone ever heard of "right pert", meaning pretty or cute?
>
> Alice
>


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