| Appalachian colloquial inflections and language has rapidly disappeared these last 50 years because of media.
A well-worn quote, in response to how are you doing?
"Fair-to-middlin'" meaning average or a little better, according to Ronzil Lynch.
When a person wasn't feeling well, they would say, "I'm feeling poorly."
The term came from Scottish farm terminology for grading produce like sheep or cotton,
such as good, fair, middling etc.
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