Dixie Dictionary: Your Complete Guide to the Southern Language

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ISBN 10: 1575872005 ISBN 13: 9781575872001
Published by Crane Hill Pub, 2002
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Those who enjoy speaking Southern, or wish they could, will delight in hundreds of regional delights like "abode" (a wooden board), "acknowledge the corn" (to confess), and "pully bone" (wishbone). Includes 4,300 entries and 27,000 words.

About the Author: Thomas W. Howard has worked as an editor and reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch for almost forty years. Currently, he serves as a humor columnist and free-lance writer. Mr. Howard has worked as the Virginia correspondent for McGraw-Hill World News and for Fortune magazine. His book, Black Voyage, published by Little Brown in 1971, was ranked as one of that year's ten best juveniles by The School Library Journal.

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Title: Dixie Dictionary: Your Complete Guide to the...
Publisher: Crane Hill Pub
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good

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