sperts

Updated: May 7, 2025

We cannot visualize the shambling but eager mountaineer with a sample of ore in his hand unless the writer reports him faithfully: "Wisht you'd 'zamine this rock fer me I heern tell you was one o' them 'sperts." Although the hillsmen save some breath in this way, they waste a good deal by inserting sounds where they do not belong. They are fond of grace syllables: "I gotta me a deck o' cyards."

Horace Kephart - Our Southern Highlanders