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Podcast: The Talking Appalachian Podcast
Episode: Why Some Speakers Add an Extra 'T', Killed (or Kilt) Lettuce, and Storyteller Ray Hicks
Description: What did you think of this episode?It's a 't' where no 't' ought to be....we call it "the intrusive -t" as in once't, across't, and kil't. In this episode:I talk about the Appalachian delicacy of "killed lettuce"You'll hear some clips of storyteller Ray Hicks and his use of the intrusive -t and -nListen to a Civil War soldier's accent and how he used the intrusive -t 100 years before HicksI'll tell you about the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), a great resource for researching dialectsRay Hicks audio clips: Alan L...