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<\/a>This book<\/a> is a cross between the southern language dictionaries I’ve been reading of late How To Talk Pure Ozark<\/a><\/em> and How To Speak Southern<\/em><\/a>) and Poor Richard’s Almanack: Benjamin Franklin’s Best Sayings<\/em><\/a> which I read earlier this year. As such, it’s a pithy collection of observations about life and advice.<\/p>\nA couple of the items made me chuckle, a couple made me want to quote them (minus the vernacular spelling), and one led indirectly to a tweet. So it was worth browsing for sure. It’s make a better gift than the aforementioned Southern dictionaries, although a Southern dictionary with a Southern variant of aforementioned might be interesting. For one definition.<\/p>\n
The book itself is in chapbook form, which is what I think when I think cardstock cover over photocopied and saddle-stapled booklets. Instead of typewriting them or using Microsoft Word on them (which Dan Rather insists<\/em> is truthy for the time period), someone hand-lettered the pages and hand-drew the graphics and images therein. That’s a lot more work than we have to go through in 2015 to do professional quality work, my friends.<\/p>\n Apparently, this was one of a series of Boogar Hollow books; the front material lists several titles in the series. I hope the couple that put these together about the time of my birth broke even at least on them. At the very least, I’ll bet they had fun.<\/p>\n Books mentioned in this review:<\/b>
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