Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Off-kilter quilter podcast and Fancy Nancy

Frances of the Off-Kilter Quilter, has both a blog and a podcast. I recently listened to a podcast in which she interviewed her mother, and realized they were talking in my dialect! I'd always considered it to be just an accent, until I started using some of the words that Frances' podcast connected to in my memory.
Do you know the meaning of these words:
  • persnickety
  • discombobulate
  • reckon
  • hafta
  • turn the TV over
Everyday words in my youth.  And the g and the end of words like going, working, etc. is a silent g. Turns out our dialect even has a name: "South Midland."
Anyway, Frances has a good piece of this dialect, and her mother is actually living in Louisville. She even knew the best place in the world to buy sewing notions, at least it was till it closed. A. Baer ran the store, which was called Baer's Buttons. Get it? "A. Baer's Buttons" Hahahahaha - love it. They had every button imaginable. Loved that store, sadly now gone.
Frances sews and quilts. One recent picture on her blog included her design wall and a mannequin. Her mannequin is named Betty, and was dressed very cute, so I thought I'd post a picture of my dressmaker's dummy, Fancy Nancy. She gets all the clothing DD leaves behind.
So I reckon youall are purty well discombobulated by this blog post by now. Knowing that you're persnickety about what you read, and because I hafta turn the TV over to the ZDF channel, I better scoot. Here's Fancy Nancy's portrait. Yes, she's wearing not only my daughter's old clothes, but also a feather duster and embroidery and quilt hoops.

No comments: