A Page from the Kentucky Phrasebook:

by Becky




I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky.
- Abraham Lincoln

A Page from the Kentucky Phrasebook

by Becky



March, for all its bluster, has golden days. This is one. The more charming in contrast with the hurly-burly yesterdays of the month.

-Ingram Crockett, A Year Book of Kentucky Woods and Fields, 1901

A Page from the Kentucky Phrasebook

by Becky



This was spotted at the Waffle House in Florence, Kentucky:


I really like how it captures the cadence on the Kentucky twang.

A Page from the Kentucky Phrasebook

by Becky

"He thinks he's hot stuff. He thinks he's shitting in tall cotton."
- Mr. Brandon Marksberry, of Petersburg, KY

A Page from the Kentucky Phrasebook

by Becky

"She wouldn't say 'shit' if she had a mouthful."
- My honorary aunt Sharon Rudy, who lives in Owenton, Kentucky.