Show mountain IDIOMS of some sollie of tt 11 ilsc peculiar ii ex preshion i tit of the Sot sotillo illk A correspondent w rites riles dalilig the file earlier carlier part of a long experience in the hie mountains of 11 ae south au th I 1 found no little entertainment in tile the idioms used by life hie matiie deop eople ae it mas some months before I 1 dico cred the fact that they were ieli hm as much ML me as a a I 1 na was nith rah them certain expressions pres hubig to my illy tongue as a result of if a nev englan of training ug and a considerable sid lid erable amount of hijo ehing about in ill other sect sections lons had added to my lary expressions which 11 ere 0 as s n new ew ant and I 1 arn amusing using to aillem ns as theirs IN ere to me inc some of their expressions were purely local and of a nathe manufacture others were gemeril ge throughout the south and some were more distinct distinctly lv national there some which a seemed ne emed to furnish sli on an opportunity for a bit of philological reflection some IN mere w ere in common use which were wholly holly legitimate but almost if not quite ob obsolete soleto in wider circles I 1 queued quelled much over their com bonim on use of hit for the pronoun it it helmed se ined to me a co but see cc no source front from A which aich it could if leave ive come into such general use I 1 found it one lay day accidentally in the appendix to webster cr s dictionary it was neither a roi nor an idiom it vi was as a suri sundal i al the word is also used in ill tile the sime same ay in ill scotland and IN will ill be found in the dialect of ct some of the novels of george macdonald of the same order infer i vaa is ti the le use of the vord nord holp holf where helped rs it the common term 1 I holp ter iula build it hit V will illustrate the use of both of the words word s illon ity aa F go azol wo rd loy be found ill both iho bible amal shakespeare pitt cut hit was not ot of invariable use and not infrequently the s sr ii bic c en tence would include both it and nil hil the use ise of the i w ord to lin in tion nieth w ith averly a verb w here it i is usually all III urd instead of fit expressed epic bcd AN was as ano to my car arii or ill in the idiom yC als As an illustration tile the expression would mould be you 11 KInt to go 1 I heard it me in cheuse of the participle of certain words hit taken me a week ter make jacc lie he written me a letter the use of done dolic is as not local such as all done gone done lid did and the like but I 1 think iam it would puzzle old andews and stoddard to It illse the hie sentence ile he done had bad him 0 a fight N NY Y post |