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This is a list of folk speech submitted by the author’s students. It is organized alphabetically with analysis and translation for each word.
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Illiterate herself, Margaret Rendleman had a man transcribe her will, who spelled the words as he heard and pronounced them.
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The author recounts how he and a man he dined with puzzled over the origin of a word, “Gowbral.” It ended up being a combination of gar broth, used as a term referring to meanness.