Martha: Appalachian Cackleberries - 10 Oct. 2007
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🗓️ 10 October 2007
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:28.5 | Samsung dot com pricing shown Welcome to another mini podcast of A Way With words. I'm Martha Barnett. My co-host |
| 0:44.4 | Grant Barrett is off at the zoo. He said something about going over there and |
| 0:48.1 | look for part-time work teaching English as a second language to parrots. |
| 0:53.4 | Anyway, speaking of learning to talk, |
| 0:55.9 | you know, I'm always curious about the stories of how a person |
| 0:59.2 | falls in love with language. |
| 1:01.2 | And I wanted to share with you one of mine. My story goes all the way |
| 1:05.2 | back to the foothills of Western North Carolina. My dad, Henley Barnett, was |
| 1:11.4 | born there in a one-room log cabin at the foot of Sugarloaf Mountain. |
| 1:17.0 | My father's people were Hillbillies, and each year my parents would take me from our home |
| 1:22.0 | in Louisville, Kentucky to pay him a visit. |
| 1:25.0 | So every summer, I'd hear all these relatives of mine using words and phrases I'd never heard before. |
| 1:32.0 | They say things like, I reckon and over yonder, and he was a-goin to church. |
| 1:39.2 | They'd use the word fetch instead of get. And for the past tense of fetch they'd say |
| 1:44.4 | fought as in he foughtched me the rifle gun and from the time I was very small I'd hear my |
| 1:50.8 | Aunt Maizo that's MAZA-Z-O-A-Z-O-A-Say, say things like moth-IAN you want me to |
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