Southerners React to The History of Appalachian English
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ADVICE FOR ANYONE MOVING TO THE SOUTH:
1. Save all bacon grease. You will be instructed later how to use it.
2. If you run your car into a ditch, don't panic. Four men in the cab of a four wheel drive with a 12-pack of beer and a tow chain will be along shortly. Don't try to help them. Just stay out of their way. This is what they live for. dont even try to pay them unless your paying in beer.
3. Remember: "Y'all" is singular. "All y'all" is plural. "All y'all's" is plural possessive.
4. Get used to the phrase "It's not the heat, it's the humidity". And the collateral phrase "You call this hot? Wait'll August."
5. Don't tell us how you did it elsewhere. Nobody cares.
6. If you think it's too hot, don't worry. It'll cool down-in December.
7. A Mercedes-Benz is not a status symbol, a Chevy, Dodge, or Ford is.
8. If someone says they're "fixin" to do something, that doesn't mean anything's broken.
9. The value of a parking space is not determined by the distance to the door, but the availability of shade.
10. If you are driving a slower moving vehicle, on a two lane road pull onto the shoulder that is called "courtesy".
11. BBQ is a food group. It does NOT mean grilling burgers and hot dogs outdoors.
12. Yes, weddings, funerals, and divorces must take into account for football games. Never schedule events on saturday in the fall.
13. Everything is better with Ranch dressing.
14. DO NOT honk your horn at us to be obnoxious, we will sit there until we die.
15. We pull over and stop for emergency vehicles to pass.
16. We pull over for funeral processions, turn our music off and men remove hats or caps. Some people put their hand over their heart.
17. "Bless your Heart" is a nice way of saying you're an idiot or i feel sorry for you.
18. No matter what kind : sprite, coke, pepsi, mtn dew, it isn't called soda or pop. It is all called coke.
19. There will always be a tractor on the two lane when you are running late, so allow time for that.
20. If you don't like the weather wait 15 minutes, it will change.
21. if you think it gets hot where you're from, try 90 degrees heat with 90 percent humidity. you literally breathe water.
22. "Just down the road a piece" may mean a 100 miles or so.
23. A good percentage of the people are nice, polite, and heavily armed.
24. Chili is also a food group.
25. The most common vehicle is a pickup. Some of those pickups cost close to $100,000.
26. We can and do fry almost everything but water. We are working on water. edit: we have fried water now
27. You also have to realize "The South" is a huge area and there is a lot of variation in that area.
28. Don't forget to have an RC Cola and a Moon Pie.
29. our farm equipment costs more than most houses
30. Don't try to talk to us in a fake Southern accent. We will look at you like you have lobsters crawling out your ears.
31. in a small town the form of entertainment is driving around town with your bass as high it will go
32. if someone tells you "ill be there in a minute", be prepared to wait a minute or an hour
33. We won't judge you based on your kids actions, we'll judge you based on how you react.
34. Always remember: there's the South, and then there's Florida. Two different things.
35. if someone asks you "hows your mom n them" theyre being polite
36. if you can't taste the diabetes in your sweet tea, then it ain't sweet tea
37. "Where y'all from?" is not only asking about where you live, but is a verbal handshake. It's saying, "Tell me something about yourself
38. Just because you were invited to “ stop by anytime” don’t- it wasn’t a real invitation that was meant for you to drop by. You must call!
39. if you hear a Southern woman say "Aw, hell no!", run!
40. weekends are lubricated with copious amounts of beer and mud
41. if you hear someone say "watch this ya'll" RUN
42. DO NOT insult a southern football team unless youre trying to start a fight
43. Don't be surprised or offended if a server calls you "sugar, "honey" or "darlin'", terms of endearment among strangers are much more common down there, especially in the smaller cities and towns. It doesn't mean the waitstaff is hitting on you.
44. manners and showing respect are ingrained into us from birth. use manners and show respect to others or there could be consequences.
45. dont be surprised at the amount of camo, guns/hunting, and churches you will see.
46. also dont be surprised if you see someone driving around with a deer strapped to their truck hood or hanging out of the truck bed
47. Absolutely DON’T let children call adults by their first name.
DON’T: Hi Mark!
DO: Hi Mr. Mark!
48. don’t just stay in the big cities, some of the most charming places, people, and food are not going to be found in the big cities. Stop by some rural gas station/restaurants and visit a few small town downtowns.
49. if your child (anyone under 18) disrespects an elderly person, a southerner nearby may smack them. (the older the harder)
50. The Southern accent isn’t just one accent. It’s hundreds of different accents that are different from place to place.
51. if people are nice we might tell them our secrets of where to go to the beach and the best restaurants, kindness and manners go a LONG way in the south! Please use your manners when your driving too!
52. driving directions never include road signs. they WILL however include 'the red barn, the big oak etc."
53. Charlie Daniels does NOT play a violin
54. Hank Williams Jr. is royalty in the south
55. to californians: we have bugs you have never even heard of, so dont freak out to much if you come here. we're not being invaded by aliens
(my gf is from cali. and confirms this one)
56. dont even think of leaving a party until the bonfire has burned down
57. most of us have constitutional carry and arent afraid to use it.
58. being hugged by a perfect stranger you just met in the grocery line, who will remember you and talk to you
every time they see you from this moment forward, until the end of time.
59. evasive compliments: "well, that's certainly an outfit!" or "I could never wear that! my goodness!"
are polite ways of saying your outfit looks like crap but they're too polite to say it looks god awful.
60. saying things like "God awful", "lord willing and the creek don't rise"
(which means you'll do your best to do something you said you would do,) "I'll pray for y'all"
whenever misfortunes are relayed, and my personal favorite "stop showing your ass" when you're being an ass.
61. we are not anything-phobic except asshole-phobic and we will give you "the stare" when you are one.
62. TAKE THE DAMN GLASS OF TEA. you don't have to drink it, but you do have to accept it.
this is a highly symbolic ceremonial exchange of hospitality in our culture, same as it is in many parts of Asia.
63. if you don't know all the words to "Jambalaya", don't worry, we'll teach you.
LOVE THIS!!! They're all pretty much true, but I especially like #14!! That's me "up one side and down the other," lol
@@catwhisperer9489 I wouldn't say 'unfortunately' though. He played the hell out of whichever it was!
@k voiles, so many you posted I grew up on or saying; except we would go to the country store to get a "drink". Once you got to the store, then you would grab your Coke, Pepsi, Sundrop, Bubble-up or Grape/orange Nehi. And your Moonpie. Do you remember Tru-Aid orange soda?
@@patriciakeith6755 i dont think we had tru-aid where im from, i do remember nehi's tho. never heard of bubble up either. we always said ' im goin to the store to get a coke" then come back with whatever
@@kennethv5250, Tru-Aid was an orange flavored drink that really tasted like a mix between an orange and a tangerine. Not like Sunkist, which to me doesn't have a real orange flavor to it.
This brings back memories. I’m from Texas, my Mama is from Kentucky Apps. My cousin once said, “ This tar and that tar are the boundaries for the turtle race”. There were no “tars”, but “tires”. The roof was pronounced ruff, and if you went to anyone’s house, regardless how rich or poor they were, you were expected to eat. You could eat seven times a day.
I am from Scotland (Prestwick, Ayrshire to be precise) and they only briefly mentioned the influence of the Scots and Scots-Irish on the Appalachian dialect. Many years ago there was a fantastic series on PBS (where else?😎) called "The Story of English" covering the many influences that gave us the language we know today as English. The particular episode I strongly recommend for anyone interested in the influence the Scottish tongue had on the Appalachian accent/dialect is called "The Guid Scots Tongue":
th-cam.com/video/Lbr148pL21o/w-d-xo.html
Also, I think it's a misnomer to suggest that the Appalachian dialect "drops" the final 'g' in words like "Fixin' to go a-huntin'". I personally think it's more like they never got around to puttin' it on in the first place.
Tioraidh an-drasta🏴
I see a strong Scottish and Irish influence in Bluegrass music and clogging.
Thank you, kind sir. Much appreciated.
Thank you! We love watching documentaries.
EXACTLY!!!
Thanks for sharing this! 👍🏼
I live in the beautiful northeast TN mountains, about an hour north of Knoxville/Gatlinburg. The south, outside of major cities, is the most peaceful place in the country. And the people are amazing. We may talk funny or slower than the rest of the country, but don't believe for a minute that means dumb! Our priorities are different and our language is all our own. So glad to see this video. And I wholeheartedly agree with the pronunciation of these mountains...it is App-a-latch-a. Anyone says it differently ain't from around here!
Here's the simple history of Appalachian English from a man who grew up in the middle of it and has a degree in history. The early European colonists of what became the US were primarily Scots-Irish farmers seeking a better life and new land. They spoke a particular dialect of English not unlike Shakespeare's original pronunciation combined with an Irish lilt. As more settlers arrived and cities grew on the coasts, and especially as rich slave-plantations dominated the lowlands, these old stock farmers kept moving west. Soon they were crossing the Blue Ridge Mountains, which until the introduction of railroads and interstate highways was an effective barrier that kept settler families isolated from people even ten or twenty miles away. So the mountain folk descended from a few pioneer families that settled a rugged and inaccessible territory, still surrounded by native Americans who were hostile to the intruders. The settlers intermarried because there were no other options and earned a reputation as fiercely loyal to their neighbors and friends and fiercely hostile to outsiders. Being isolated they kept their dialect from the 1600's while other dialects developed elsewhere. Until around 1700 all the colonists still talked this way with the exception of the gentry on the coasts who spoke a softer style similar to todays "southern" accent. Even New Englanders spoke with a southern dialect until about 1750.
Wow, that’s fascinating.
Wow thanks for sharing this! At the end you mention that even New Englanders spoke with a southern inflection. It got me thinking because I’m from New England & the Kennedy accent does have a southern quality about it even though it’s still that harsh North Eastern tone. Another point to mention is that I don’t think there’s anyone left who still has that Kennedy Boston accent. There’s people with strong accents but nothing like how that family spoke. It’s one thing I’ve noticed over the years. Our accents and way of speaking changes ever so much as time passes and we don’t really notice. I feel like the North Eastern accent at least around my area isn’t as strong as it once was. More and more People are sounding like their from Connecticut! Lol (That would be the No Accent State)
@@TaraConti As people grow up they tend to learn language as they hear it the most. These days most people, including Americans, hear more English via television and internet than from listening to actual people speak and this has been going on for fifty years or more. Most actors and broadcasters learn an artificial "Flat Midwest" accent that is supposed to be clear to everyone. Even that has changed over time. In the old days from about 1920-1950 actors used the "Atlantic Accent". Ever listen to an old black and white film or a song from before WW2 and notice that strange way they spoke that doesn't sound exactly British or exactly American? That is the Atlantic Accent.
@@TaraConti Ya mean y’all don’t ‘pahk the cah on cahdboahd to save the drahvway from oil’ anymore?
@@riccileighisreal6889 😂 Yeah I guess we kinda do!
Loved this. And it makes total sense. Our earliest ancestors came from Ireland to England to fight for Saint Oswald at Heavenfield. They were rewarded a strip of land in what is now Scotland. On Dads side, everyone is very dark skinned like me with Black hair and blue eyes. We all sound country as cornbread as well. Even my younger Brother who is a Jr High School teacher. Now I know where it came from. God bless y’all. This was fun
I live in the Appalachia area and I have been to Cali and I can tell you every time i spoke every one would look at me. When i told them I was from Tennessee my brothers friends in Cali would introduce me the first thing out of their mouth would be listen to him talk. LMAO every time. I love being from where I am and I have been around the world twice and have met many people, but never exp. the culture like we have in our area. Would not trade it for any where else
hey! another brother from Tn.
I have a similar experience, I was born in Louisiana and moved to Arkansas when I was 10, when I was 20 I moved to California for about a year, everyone I spoke to, asked a question to, they made me repeat everything, not because they didn't understand me but because they just wanted to hear my accent again, it was kinda cool at first but got to be very annoying fast, I wound up moving back to Arkansas...lol
Here's an interesting factoid for you. The Appalachian Mts stretch from Alabama up the eastern side of the US into Canada (Nova Scotia), Green land, Ireland, Scotland, Norway and even Africa. So it all started in the Mts. :)
Wow
I enjoyed this a lot just like I do all y’all’s reactions. I am 75. Y’all are a wonderful couple. I hope y’all stay together forever. Keep the love going. I don’t really know exactly how to navigate all this but wanted to say how entertaining y’all are.
Tom from Texas
As a native Southern Appalachian (Tennessee), if you say "Apple AAA Shu," I'll throw an "Apple AT Cha." ;-)
Three minutes into it I see Popcorn and hear "I'll see you over yonder, meaning Waynesville"....my hometown. I still have a house and land up in western NC and need to get back more often. Thank you for sharing this.
I live in Kentucky and love my ancestors
Y'all should check out 'Celebrating Appalachia' on TH-cam! Miss Tipper talks about Appalachian words, foods, and traditions.
Another TH-camr, Donnie Laws, talks about the history and superstitions of Appalachia. He also posts lots of videos from his wildlife cameras.
I love this documentary! I have probably watched it 10 times. The full documentary is called Mountain Talk.
Dolly Parton was born just north of Knoxville, TN. I live about 2 hrs NE of that so I can have a 'hillbilly' accent when I get into a sarcastic mood. The word that I would use to describe myself would be "Peckish" because most of the time both definitions usually fits my mood.
When I was in high school in the mid 80s, PBS had a series on called "The History of English", I think that was the name of the show, and we had to watch it for the English class.
I'm from Australia and my mothers side of the family is Irish/German and a lot of those word I recognized and my grandmother would use them all the time like a pig in a poke thank you for showing this I just check to see where folk from Appalachia migrated from yep a large majority came from Ireland and Scotland peace out.
i live in middle Tennessee i was also raised to give the shirt off my back to someone in need.
10:01 The first words out of that guy's mouth, immediately after that discussion. 🤯
What a weird coincidence. Lol
I live in the mountains of North Carolina born and raised. The mountains are so beautiful I could never leave you can see God's hand in the beauty
I live in central Alabama. I’m on 15 acres and closest neighbor is about ¼ mile. However I know every one of them & can call on them for absolutely anything and they’ll help no questions asked.
I’ve had multiple back surgeries and cutting my yard is a chore. I cut roughly 4 acres. One of my neighbors will cut it out of the blue because he knows I struggle w cutting it. Doesn’t ask for anything in return he just does it.
I have a nice tractor and he knows that if he ever needs it all he has to do is come and get it & use it as he needs it.
We had a storm not long ago that blew over some trees. I was cutting them w a chainsaw & cleaning and another neighbor drove by & saw me & got out and helped for a bit. Asked for nothing in return. Yet he knows if he needs anything I’d be there.
We have a gas station a mile from us and when we go in we know everyone inside.
I would not trade what we have here for a mansion in a city. I just couldn’t do it.
No one can see our house so basically we’re cut off from others. But close enough to be neighbors.
Nothing else like it.
I love her. She gets it.
Hope you get this message since the video is a year old. I grew up near Waynesville in a family that was 7 or 8 generations deep in the Smoky Mtns. Their language actually isn't born of ignorance or "lazy" English. It is heavily influenced by their Scottish and Irish ancestors. Because mountain people were isolated long after transportation and communication reached other parts of the country, word usage didn't change from the way people talked in the 1700's when their ancestors first moved in.
Dolly Parton is from the Smokey mountains.
You may be new...but you are the best couple out there. Ain’t nothin better then a southern girl. I saw a special on this, it’s actually from the way the English accent was spoken!
My grandaddy always ate his greens (collards or turnips) with cornbread pinched up with his fingers. Thanks for the memory. By the by I'm from Homerville, Georgia.
My mother's family is from Vidalia and Ailey, Georgia. This video was less of a "History of..." and more of an exploration into words used in Appalachian English. There are TH-cam videos about how the various Southern accents and idioms developed from the peoples that settled there.
I took a road trip to Georgia with my grandfather. We visited quite a few of the homes of his friends and relatives. It was a nice place to visit but I'm too much of a "City Boy" to wanna live there!!!
Yup we all.live in the country enjoy just Being. Just subscribed to yall. !!we still use all these words they are using.
Enjoyed your video.
Hatfield and McCoys , my last name is McCoy lol
Here in California very far and few for a greeting culture like that which sounds very nice. Here if it doesn't benefit you a simple hello can sound hallow and cold. Be lucky you got a few words from the cashier at the grocery store on your way back home 😅
The funny part is that I had to stop and comment before the 20 second mark because you two were arguing. lol
On with the show.
Popcorn Sutton!!!! Most famous moonshine ever!....him and Junior Johnson.
It's Old English proper.
Somewhere along the way, short vowels became long and vice versa.
My late Pappaw, born in 1917 pronounced cover, like a quilt, as "Civer".
I know folks who pronounce help as "hope".
Names like Celia became See-Lee.
Sabria, Say-bree.
Etc, etc.
Cattywampus- is another word for sygogglin (?). It means askew or crooked.
sorry...I grew up in southern Illinois and I'm so used to this..... also lived in Huntsville AL and Atlanta - just "southy"
Western NC/Appalachia here 👋
Oh dear heart!! It is NOT just Atlanta... I was born and raised in Raleigh/Garner North Carolina... It has CHANGED so much over the last 40+ years and mostly NOT for the better. I'm seriously starting to feel like there is no more room for me here any more.... and my Scottish and Cherokee blood weeps for what has been lost.
There is a 3 part series on U.S. accents. Very, very thorough.
you guys should do the American Accent tour from WIRED. they goes over some of this stuff and the differences of different accents from the US.
There is a video series that I've seen a few other people react to - an accent expert gives a tour of North American accents. It's in 3 parts, each part running about 15-20 minutes. The two of you should probably enjoy it.
We just sold our home and we loved all of our neighbors and knew them all. We looked out for each other and did bar b ques together. I will miss them more than my house! We were white, hispanic, kenyan, and black American and we all loved each other. I never felt afraid when my husband went out of town....I had my family around me!
"Gaummed"....lol. I heard that a lot growing up. My dad was from Appalachia (Southwest Va.), and they used to say "pop" for "soda". As for Coke itself, that was pronounced "CoCola". When something happened very fast, they used to say "Like Grant took Richmond".
Here's a great example of the Southerners of Tangier Island, Va. who have retained the old accent of Southwest England after centuries of relative isolation: that's where the Southern drawl originated. th-cam.com/video/AIZgw09CG9E/w-d-xo.html
Growing up in NW Georgia, I had a bit of a twang, though I never heard it. In high-school took a trip to DC with other students, people would hear talking and were curious. They would come up and ask us to say something.
Love this.
As someone from Appalachia, thanks for learning about the dialect. It's too often overlooked or stereotyped as the English of hillbillies.
That’s Popcorn!!! a legend moonshiner
Let’s talk about hoe cakes & pot likker!!!
First time I said I was craving them my Yankee husband thought I’d been raised in a brothel😂😂
Yum yum yum!
One can get a fairly decent fix at the Cracker Barrel w their Beans n Greens. Key phrase being ‘fairly decent’ lol
Now up-state Pa. we said “Crick”. Not creek.
Down in Philly. Many of the black folk say “All-Y’all”. From the northern migration trail going back to the Carolinas and Virginia.
I think you guys would really enjoy the song and official video by David Nail "Whatever She's Got", even if you don't review it you should watch it.
My suggestion is this series by Wired on an tour of US accents. This is the link to the first part th-cam.com/video/H1KP4ztKK0A/w-d-xo.html . It is really good and very informative. I am so glad you got to the Country Music Hall of Fame and learned about the beginnings of country music. I love folk music, especially music from the British Isles, and you can follow the songs as they were brought over here and became bluegrass and country. I am also a history enthusiast and have studied the history of the migrations, and how it has influenced the different areas of the US. I am an old Army Brat and moved around a lot and so accents have always fascinated me. I lived in Tennessee in the mid 60s when I was 7-10, which is where I found my love for folk and country music. I am originally from Wyoming but live in Colorado. The same thing you experienced going to Tennessee and then coming back to Atlanta is what I experience when I go back to Wyoming to visit family.
Deep South was from England mixed with Scotch Irish (Scottish people who lived in N Ireland, NOT Irish). Mountain folk mostly Scotch Irish
Cattywompus is another word for sigogglin.
When I was growing up in Houston we called everything "coke" & when I moved to the DFW area, we called it "soda". I always thought that was very interesting.
Catterwampus is the phrase my TN mamma would say instead of "sigoggle".
I am from West Virginia and anytime you want to hear my accent or the list of words the girlfriend says I say wrong (Its a long list) just let me know. lol
Hefer.. Pocketbook, call evry body Sugar or Sweetheart, Bless Your Heart.. FrigaDare=Refrigerator, up the Skreet= Streat... Mashed the gas pedal.
Yes, to all of this!
Y'all is not short for "you all" like most think. It is a short form of the old English "ye all"
Dang it, now i want an orange dope and a moon pie
My parents were from the hills of KY. Mama always told us to quit gaumin. We didn't know what it meant we just knew to stop doing what we were doing no matter what it was. My Daddy said sygogglin and Mama said whoperjawed for something crooked. As a teen I worked hard not to have an accent from here. Now I don't care. Lol
I tried to change the accent too, but I still sometimes use whopperjawed.
I've read alotta references come out of Irish settlers around Appalachian man's. Living in Tenn 🧡 capitol being music city also based in Irish culture some just sayin
Tons of what some call "Ebonics" comes from these southern dialects. Poor whites and blacks (post civil war) developed their speech together. All of them lived and worked together
You guys like to get to the beginnings of things. Just like me. I liked your video.
It's discombobuplated or sidegoglen.
My husband and I consider ourselves country folk. We live in Montgomery, we are white, we moved into a black neighborhood over two years ago, we wave at all our neighbors...within one month we knew all of our immediate neighbors by name. When my hubby and I are working in our yard, we have people honk at us, we just lift up our heads smile and wave! It's called decency and respect. Oh and I forgot to mention we are both Veterans.
You knowingly moved into a black neighborhood? What the hell were you two thinking? Do you and your husband have some kind of death wish or something?
Thank you for your service.
Absolutely enjoyed watching this. I was born and raised in the East Coast, however my parents are from the south. When my parents thought things were lopsided they would say catty Wompus (*sp have no idea) but sounds likes it’s written. Love y’all
Lol, love it.
you have the spelling right, you can also write wompus as wampus, so either one is good
I live in Indiana on the border of Kentucky and in Kentucky, I've also heard catty corner and kitty corner
@@catwhisperer9489 and kitty-corner?? lol
@@catwhisperer9489 and k voiles...The first time I heard kitty corner was when I worked at the airport in Louisville and the loader platform where you drop the containers from the tugs was diagonal and he told me you had to come up to it a certain way because they were kitty corner. This was from someone from Kentucky who was tough to understand, you would have thought he was from Mississippi, which in my book, is the hardest Southern accent to understand for people not from the South, and I say that as someone who has been to every state where white people say yall
I'm from West Virginia, living in the heart of Appalachia. My grandma had a saying when she caught u lying. She'd say, that tale has hair all over it. She was a character for sure
I'm from there too and my family goes back generations, on both sides.
By the way, I live in the Deep South, so I can relate to all of this. Here's something you will never hear in my native Wisconsin. When I was in my early 20's, I was having lunch with my boss (30 years my senior, born and raised in Ruston, Louisiana). A good-looking girl walked past us. She was wearing tight jeans and had a great figure. I was like a buck in rut... every guy in the restaurant was watching her walk past. My boss looked at me and remarked, "That looked like two bo shoats in a tote sack". I said, What?" He smiled. Then he explained what he'd said. Shoats are baby boars ("bos"; wild piglets). A tote sack was usually a canvas bag. Farmers would carry bo shoats to market in a canvas ("tote") sack. Needless to say, with two squirming piglets in that bag, it would really be moving up and down. Now, I have to say... I'd never heard anyone describe the rhythmic up-and-down movement of a woman's backside when she's walking past in such terms... but it's an image that stuck with me all these years, LOL...
Hahahahaha this was hilarious
My mom used to say when I walked my butt looked like 2 basketballs fighting under a blanket. lol
@@Acadian.FrenchFry that's it! LOL
I used a version of that just the other day. I was jawing with other members of my fire dept and we were talking about this big old gal that walked past. I said "Golly, that looked like two cats fighting over a fishhead in a sack". Haha!
Not all Southerners speak this way. It is actually more specific to people from the hills. Which is what people in those areas call it. My kin on my mother's side are from there. It is actually more akin to how the British and Scotch Irish immigrants spoke back in colonial times.
I am originally from West Virginia so I grew up with mountain talk. And Appalachia is pronounced "appa-latch-a" and not "appa-lay-shu" by the folks who live there. Love your channel!
Thank you, thank you for saying that also!!! It drives me nuts 🤣🤣😂! Again, thank you!
Best way to remember is it is that “we’ll throw an apple at ya”
Perfect way to describe it. It ain't no appi-lay-sha it's appi- latch-ah.
POPCORN SUTTON!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Please do a video on just Popcorn! The Last Run is heartbreaking when you know the whole story.
RIP Popcorn 🙏
I had a funny experience at South of the Boarder in the Carolina’s about ten years ago. I was driving down to Florida with a friend from Germany. I’m from the New York/Boston area. I know I have a north eastern accent but I never realized how strong it was until this encounter.
So we get to South of the Boarder & decide to get something to eat. My friend ordered her drink no problem. I ask for a coffee & my heavily southern accented waitress had no clue what I was saying! (An it was just coffee I didn’t try to order a coffee milk or anything crazy Lol) After a few attempts my German friend (who speaks English pretty much fluently just with a German accent) orders the coffee for me no problem no misunderstanding just “Oh Coffee!” 😂🙇🏻♀️
I don’t know if it comes across in writing but in the moment it was hilarious! 🤷🏻♀️
Now I need to cook me a mess of collard greens and sop up that juice with some cornbread!
Check out the Geechie Gulluh language in Charleston sc. It's interesting and where I'm from and love it. People compare it to Jamaica.
Speaking to others, treating them with respect and being happy with who you are is a good way to live.
Girlfriend I'm way deep southern in my drawl and there is many a variety of twang so to say and I always love a Louisiana accent. Though all in the south each area has a deep difference like from Tennessee having its own SC is a huge difference they have that gone with the wind accent and Louisiana way different and all so distinctive you can bout tell where a fellers from lol I tend to type out my accent as well idk why I just do lol nice meeting y'all tho only thru video y'all seem a lovely couple. Have a awesome weekend thx again sorry I tend to ramble on a bit lol it's my nature I tend ta get plum giddy er now n again ..lol there's a usual word for round these parts too lol I'm loving it
Im gonna love this one. My family has so many southern Appalachia sayings. Most people look at me strange when I come out with one. Like gaum or gaumen. Mama would say "y'all quit that a gaumin up this house!" It means quit making a mess.
Lol I thought it was"gommin"
My mama used to say "quit gommin around" when I was trying to put off doing chores! In that case, it means quit wasting time.
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App-A-lach-in
The A is like Apple.
Cime here and say it wrong... My 11yr old will correct you.
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Y'all are so cute.
Appalachia pronounced “Apple at cha” the saying goes if you get it wrong we will throw an apple at cha. 😊❤️
You both have a great deal of curiosity, a gift that should be nurtured. Keep it up!
I loved this, love yall,,wish we were neighbors..white, 60, southern, us.marine...yall are great 👍
🤣 my husband called me a heathen because I eat so much with my hands ❤️
21:36 when my friends come to visit I tell them around here we run on Tennessee time. Got nowhere to go and not in a hurry to get there.
You should check out The Heartland Series. This is a program that explores all things Southern in and around Tennessee and the mountains of North Carolina Georgia and Virginia. It ran as a snipit during the news and as a program that is now available on DVD and TH-cam. This will explain things that you have questions about and entertain you.
Crooked (not straight) = *cattywampus* :)
Lol
If it's out of whack or out of alignment you might say it's cattywampus......
Pronounced "Apple-at-chin" Most of us will stop and correct you at the very moment it comes out wrong.
Caddywompus is used in Cincinnati an Kentucky for something cruked
hey Tasha you got to get him on some lacy cornbread and field peas. what's up from Davisboro Georgia
If someone said " I wanna pop" in GA we would "POP' them upside the head It's a COKE! LMAO
i WAS IN DEMOREST GEORGIA THIS WEEK AND THEWRE ARE MORE PEOPLE LIVING OUT THATTAWAY THAN LIVE IN ATLANTA...SO MANY PEOPLE AGREE ATLANTA IS BECOMING A HOSTILE PLACE FOR EVERYONE. I HAVE A SON LIVING NEAR EMORY AND I WORRY ABOUT HIM ALL THE TIME.
Atlanta the southern New-York , Los Angeles, Chicago
Y’all don’t give up on Atlanta. I was born in Decatur, raised in Conyers and Marietta, and I refuse to stop being that open kind of friendly to folks like it used to be. Yeah, you gotta be on your toes, but it’s on us to keep the hospitality thang goin’.
Im from about 30 minutes away from where this was made. Its only about 2-2 1/2 hours north of Atlanta.
"Si-gogglin" could also be "all wobby jawed" if it's out of line or crooked
I reckon I'm fixing to... , and pretty is pronounced purtty.
My parents had two books that were called Foxfire Books.
All about the mountain culture. Very interesting read.
GREAT books! There are videos here on TH-cam about them. th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=Foxfire+Books
There were about 20 of those books. My dad collected them!
I live in Maryland. But, my son lives in Tennessee. Beautiful state and same for the people.
Dolly Parton is from the Smoky mountains different mountain range all together
you better start to ask for some storys dude, its gonne be a day when they are not around anymore, i talk to my 88 year grandma alot, and always ask for some storys from back in the days.... peace from Sweden
I’ve lived in Atlanta all my life. 72 years and yes, I have seen the changes, starting with the 50s. The current decade is the worst for civility and manners.
I'm Canadian and in Ontario. But my mother's people are from Cape Breton, an island on the Atlantic. They have a regional accent there and a dialect with their own words and expressions. Like the Appalachian people, they have a Scots-Irish background.
Their original language was Gaelic and they still have a sing-song to their speech and a great love of music. When we would visit they would always have big kitchen parties known as "Ceilidhs". People get out their musical instruments and play and dance, tell folk stories and jokes. They hold on to a lot of the traditional Celtic music but also play a lot of modern music now too. And the food! Good times.
I have visited Tennesse and also loved it. I have been to Atlanta but I was a child and it was 1981. I'm sure things have changed a lot since then.
You are not in my neighborhood with this. You are on the back porch at the cookout with me doing this.
That movie is a lot longer than this, it's called Mountain Talk.
In the southern part of West Virginia we say they're up the holler instead of hollow
My family was just a stone’s throw from Butcher Holler. They grew up with “The Webbs”
Thank you so much for doing this video. I have sat here with tears running down my face because these people sound so much like my momma and daddy and my grandma. They are long gone but the cadence of the south lingers on in my memory. God bless the both of you
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Appa- latch- an. Its the same "A" all the way through.
Ohio? Your Grandma lived in Ohio? Would it be the Dayton area? Or Daytucky? Back in the late 60s-early-70s, there was a mass migration from Kentucky to the Dayton area for GM jobs. There Grandkids still have a slight southern accent. Kinda funny!
Yes! Lol, wow….. that is so interesting.