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From: "Robert C. McArtor" <>
Subject: Re: [OLDWORDS] Re: Fritter Controversy
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:02:21 -0400


I do think we'uns air a fritterin away air tyme! Flattern a fritter!! Aye,
Bob McArtor

Richard L Turner wrote:

> Hey Ar!
>
> Hyir in the Smoky Mountains o Tennessee Aa neer hyeard aught but
> "flattern a flitter." Aa allus thought hit was simple euphony. We do raat
> smart o that. Shore enough, they's a wee leetle pone o bread cawd
> "fritter," but hit's made outten wheat flar. Corn meal fritters is cawd
> "fry-bread."
>
> (Done into Standard English for our Flatland friends:)
> Here in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee I never heard anything but
> "flatter than a flitter." I had always thought it was simple euphony.
> It's not uncommon. Indeed, there is a sort of bread we call "fritter,"
> but it's always of wheat flour. A fritter made of corn meal is called
> "fry-bread."
>
> Yorn/Yours,
> Richard Turner.
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