"Coalspeak"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Apr 27 18:21:47 UTC 2011


http://www.coalregion.com/


This site, in the section called _Coalspeak_, has an amateur's
"lexicon" of the regional speech of the former coal-mining counties -
including Luzerne County, the current seat of your humble
correspondent - of NE PA. There may be diamonds of interest among the
lumps of anthracite. <har! har!>

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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