Listening to Rural Midwestern Idioms/Folk Sayings

by Bob Bohlken and Ph.D.

Book Overview

Entertaining guide to sayings and expressions from an almost lost early rural culture. Helps explain some strange phraseology and other Midwestern talk. These sayings are colored with allusions from the past and touched with a bit of humor. Some may appear to be crude and crass, but they are authentic. Written by noted storyteller and observer of local folks.

Here is a sampling of these and many other midwestern folk sayings (idioms) in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0930643348
• ISBN13: 9780930643348
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Images Unlimited Publishing
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"