DICTIONARY OF SMOKY MOUNTAIN ENGLISH by Michael Montgomery and Joseph Hall. Let there be no doubt, this is The Definitive Work on Smoky Mountain speech. Its 710 pages hold six decades of work by Hall and Montgomery, recording, reading, interviewing, and investigating one of the most colorful and innovative regional dialects. Is your house "doty?" (we hope not); does it look like a hoorah's nest?, is the kitchen stocked with pickalilly? This book is authoritative, handsome, and hardbound. It belongs in the reference section of every person and institution fascinated with life in the Smokies. Includes a chapter on grammar and syntax and a list of the hundreds of residents interviewed by Joseph Hall in the '30s, '40s, and '50s.
