Quiz

[deborak]

This is mainly for toliver but everyone is welcome to guess.

While viewing an 18th Century tax list, the following was written by one of the names in a column used for comments, such "Removed to Kentucky" or "Deceased" etc.

Twist Cd

It took me a while to figure it out. Can you?

Comments

[cycnus39]

I feel like such a failure for not getting this!

[deborak]

aw, I'm just excited you replied! Do they say oncet, twicet, acrosst in your neck of the woods? The Appalachian dialect (described by linguists as "archaic speech narrowed down to sort of a Scottish-flavored Elizabethan English") of my ancestry does, so once I said the words out loud I easily figured it out.

[cycnus39]

We don't! I suspect it's more Elizabethan than anything else -- but you know those linguists will say anything. ;-)

[deborak]

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[deborak]

I'd love to come to your meeting. I have a lot of intriguing black sheep rumors in my family, including a murder mystery, a connection to Devil Anse Hatfield (of the McCoy Feud fame), a possible KKK member and a bootlegger. I also have a confirmed pirate ancestor. Good thing misbehavior isn't genetic. :-)

[cteare]

My grandfather was also a bootlegger. I haven't come across any pirates. :) I know my great great grandfather committed suicide, and I've found more than one ancestor that served in the Revolutionary War.