[lit-ideas] Tetchy
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 04:20:56 -0600
From the BBC website:
<<At the end of the day, none of them - not even a tetchy Japan - is in any
mood or position to back up hostile words with deeds.>>Having moved, during
childhood, from the lingo of Arizona to that of Missouri, close to the Ozark
area, and having read a significant repertoire of American lit -- including
lit from the deep south, form the Appalachians, etc. -- I have long assumed
"tetchy" to be a sort of rural colloquialism. As in, "She was jest
nacherlly tetched"...."he wuz a mought tetchy, miss".... a southern-accent
twist on "touched" and "touchy". And here "tetchy" is in the proper BBC.
First-hand explications about regional usages and origins, anyone?
Julie Krueger
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