TODAYS QUICK QUOTE

(11/02/2015)

Appalachian colloquial inflections and language has rapidly disappeared these last 50 years because of media. A well-worn quote, in response to how are you doing? "Fair-to-middlin'" meaning average or a little better, according to Ronzil Lynch. When a person wasn't feeling well, they would say, "I'm feeling poorly." The term came from Scottish farm terminology for grading produce like sheep or cotton, such as good, fair, middling etc.

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