On Aug 1, 2004, at 21:44, Patricia Ann Fisher wrote:
I suppose the kids at school thought I came from up a hollar [...]
For non-Southerners, before you ask... :) That's our version of "hollow"; what in Brit English would be, I think, "dell". Early settlers would take possession of such - nobody close enough no poke their nose into private business - build their house in a most protected spot, farm the rest, and, in time, subdivide among the family members. Thus, entire extended families stayed outside the "official loop". "Coming up from a holler" can have some very bad connotations, even in the South. And I've never come accross the term outside the South...
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