Record #:

14672

Author(s):

Moore, Louis T.

Abstract:

Northerners who criticize the use of the favorite expression \"you all,\" may be interested in knowing that there are frequent references to it in the Good Book.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 12 Issue 10, Aug 1944, p7

Subject(s):

Bible; Colloquialism; Slang

Record #:

16354

Author(s):

Barrick, Mac E.

Abstract:

The importance of fried fatback in the diet of Southern African Americans and poor whites has long been recognized, but a Carolina colloquialism which describes it as Texas Chicken, seems to have escaped the notice of lexicographers, folklorists, and dialect scholars. The North Carolina phrase is an example of the ethnophaulism or ethnic slur that figures prominently in the folk speech of many regions of the United States. Study of such phrases not only sheds light on the foodways of a people, but also reveals latent attitudes toward outsiders.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 27 Issue 3, Dec 1979, p88-92 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Colloquialism; Folk speech