Friday, March 23, 2018

The cheese done slid off my cracker

One of my students recently brought a phrase to my attention having to do with cheese sliding off of a cracker. I had never heard it, so I googled it. I was surprised at how many things showed up on the images page...it looks like we've been missing out on a good one! I am posting this particular image because it also includes the past tense marker "done" that we'd been seeing in the Appalachian dialect we were studying in class. "I think this boy's cheese has done slid off his cracker."

Now I want cheese and crackers.

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