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Podcast: The Talking Appalachian Podcast
Episode: Listening to Letters: Appalachian Englishes Across a Century
Description: What did you think of this episode?What did Appalachian English sound like before anyone could hit “record”?In this episode revisit from Season 1, I’m doing a little linguistic time travel using letters instead of audio. I take a close look at two personal letters written nearly a century apart:• one from 1862, during the Civil War, and• one from 1954, written by a woman in Lee County, VirginiaOn the surface, they’re just everyday letters. But read closely, they’re packed with clues about how people actually spoke...