A Field Guide to Southern Speech: A Twelve-Gauge Lexicon for the Duck Blind, the Deer Stand, the Skeet Shoot, the Bass Boat, and the Backyard Barbec

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They say the South is the only place where a person can tell you a story that lasts three hours and still leave you wanting more. In A Field Guide to Southern Speech, Charles Nicholson captures that tradition in a collection of humorous essays and dictionary entries that celebrate the richness of Southern vernacular. From the duck blind to the bass boat, each entry is a miniature comedy sketch that honors the rhythms and inflections that make Southern English so distinctive.\n\nWhether you're a native speaker who knows every idiom by heart or someone who's always been charmed by the cadence of Southern storytelling, this book will make you laugh. The twelve-gauge lexicon metaphor is itself a joke — the book is a witty, affectionate tribute to a culture that doesn't take itself too seriously and doesn't need anyone else to take it seriously, either.

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