Listening to Rural Midwestern Idioms/Folk Sayings (Revised)

Do you want to better understand Midwestern talk and bring color to YOUR speech? You'll have fun associating popular phrases, sayings and curious expressions to their meanings and uses.

These down-home sayings celebrate the wisdom and commonsense values of America's heartland. They touch on topics related to weather, money, love, sex and marriage, food, sports and other events.

Author Bob Bohlken has chronicled these sayings and expressions from an almost lost early rural culture into this entertaining guide. He has shown that the power of verbal suggestion can give different meanings to words and expressions.

Listening to Rural Midwestern Idioms/Folk Sayings will make a fun gift for country folks and anyone who enjoys language humor. If you're ready to "chew the fat" and "strike while the iron is hot", then this book's for you. Click the order button above. You'll want to buy two, one to keep and one to give away.

Bob Bohlken, Ph.D. is a noted storyteller and observer of the local folks. As an astute scholar of rural Midwestern folk sayings, he has uncovered the meanings and allusions to almost 1,000 different popular rural Midwestern phrases. Dr. Bohlken spent over 30 years as an administrator and professor of communications at Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Missouri. He was inducted into the International Listening Association Hall of Fame. Now he continues his insightful views as a columnist for the Nodaway News Leader.