Appalachian Dialect in The Coffin Quilt

What is a sow?

• a farm tool

• a female pig

• a flower

• another name for fork

Light of holiness

• preacher

• nun

• touched by God

• someone who weighs very little

pitifullest

• falling

• sad

• sunken

• hungry

onliest

• over the fence

• the right one

• the chosen one

• the only one

level in the head

• having common sense

• rational

• sane

• all of the above

half-wit

• someone who goes to school

• foolish

• someone who whittles

• toy maker

delicate condition

• woman who is blessed

• flowers

• someone who is sickly

• woman who is pregnant

be marked

• write on someone

• counted present

• born with something because of something the mother did

• someone who is chosen

sassing

• a type of tea

• arguing with adults

• swaying side to side

• none of the above

rough side of his tongue

• being yelled at

• unable to speak

• a birth defect

• unable to eat