Those Two Young Ladies are just Precious! I'm awfully partial to well mannered folks and Momma and Daddy have EVERY RIGHT to their pride in their gals!
Just read your post!! Amazingly, we used same words to describe this lovely young lady!! Of course were right.. But I can't think of anyone , certainly not on you tube... Who I've ever gone out of my way to describe as poised!!! But she is... Strikingly so!!! How cool that we both thought same exact tbing!!!
Batteries were called battreys, windows called winders, yellow called yeller. Many of these terms were English in origin, but shortened through the years.
Actually it's more Scots-irish brogue that got 'Merican-ized.obviously with English throwed in.a lot of folks also don't pay attention to German immigrants that wanted mountains and have showed up,in mountain regions as well.
Oh these all make me so homesick!!! I never hear these words so much anymore. Truly the sad part is, growing up, I thought sounding like “my people” didn’t make me sound like I knew the “proper” pronunciation (at least per the spelling.) Now, I am proud of annunciation my relatives have and some still use. I’m recording as much as I can recall! I’ve even taught my husband a few “backhome” words along the way.
You two women are **awesome!** I'm from New Zealand and I haven't been to Appalachia yet but I'd love to go there! The mountains and forests, the wonderful people with your language, music and culture! Oh, and I'll bet the food is awesome too! Love from New Zealand!
I was born in TN and have lived most of my professional life in AZ. One time I was working with a contractor and I asked her “Yahwnt to go to lunch”.... She looked back at me puzzled and asked me what ? I repeated myself 3 times and then just decided to help her out and I told her “Yahwnt” is short for Do you want to. I then repeated myself again asking her “Do you want to go to lunch?”. I explained that sometimes folks in the South will combine words to reduce the number of words needed.
Ever heard of someone or something being hit so hard, " They were Knocked Ball Winding" ?? From Southside VA. Y'all always take me back in time, Thanks a bunch!! DLS !!
We do similar in parts of Michigan. The commonest one is "Jeet yet?" Which means "did you eat yet?" It's more prevalently used in the northern and rural parts of the state, but just about everyone knows what it means when they hear it.
"Piddlin' ". For example, I ain't been doing much today, but piddlin' around in the garden". I still say hissy fit & "I swear" is another one too. "Fixin' to" is in my daily vocabulary too. My mamaw would always say " bless your heart".
I remember Granny sayn.."growin like a weed"..grandpa say" he's knee high to a grasshopper" "wet like a dog's hind leg"..I so miss my grandparents..bless them and all their knowledge🙏🙏✝️✝️
Im in Kentucky, raised sons in Ohio, my sons friends slept over and I said I’ll make you boys a pallet in front of the TV, those boys looked at my sons and said what did she say what is a pallet ,,,,,we all know it’s blankets and pillows spread nicely on the floor ✋🏻
If something was difficult, my grandma would say it was 'like pulling hen's teeth'. Wow, all these sayings took me right back to my grandma's ....and my dad's regular speech. How are you Pop? "Fine as Christmas candy", he'd say.
Robert Sparkman HI ROBERT,,,IM IN KENTUCKY,,,MY GRANDPARENTS WERE REAL HOMESTEADERS,,THEY HAD 21 CHILDREN ,,,ITS BECAUSE THERE WAS NO FORM OF BIRTH CONTROL😁,,, YOU SHOULD WATCH ,CELEBRATING APPALACHIA, SHE TALKS IN SOME VIDEOS ABOUT OUR WORDS ,,OUR SAYINGS,, ITS VERY INTERESTING,,,IVE SPOKEN THESE WORDS MY WHOLE LIFE IT FASCINATES ME KNOWING ITS OUR LANGUAGE,, COUNTRY,, APPALACHIAN,, FOLKS SPEAK AND UNDERSTAND OUR OWN LANGUAGE ,,,I LOVE IT,,WHEN A CITY PERSON LOOKS TO SOMEONE AND SAYS ,,,WHAT DID SHE SAY 😆
@@Robert_Sparkman_01 a pallet is when one takes several homemade quilts-enough for padding so the kids don’t feel as though they are sleeping directly on the floor-a pillow for each kid, and more homemade quilts for cover. When my grandma was dying, mother’s siblings took turns going to my aunt’s house where grandma was staying. Pallets were made for the kids because my aunt didn’t have enough beds for the adults and kids. During this time I formed friendships with cousins whom I rarely saw. In hushed voices while lying in the dark on a pallet, my nine year old cousin taught me at age seven how to spell Mississippi-M, I, Crookie letter, crookie letter, I, crookie letter, crookie letter, I, humpback, humpback, I.
"Straighten up and fly right! " (stop misbehaving), and "addled" (dizzy/confused/concussed , maybe because you hit your head). We're from Watauga county , North Carolina, and hear/use a lot of these words and phases still.
I was told that and used it on my children. When my dad uttered those words, I knew to straighten up and fly right or he would take the strop to my backside.
Much better to say Great day! than saying “good morning”... the word morning is too closely related in spelling and the sound is exact to the word mourning, which is the aftermath of death, which is an oxymoron because the morning itself is full of light with the sun which gives life.
best place in the world to grow up was in Asheville-Black Mountain area of the mountains of Western North Carolina. My parents were born and died there only time they left the mountains was while Dad was in WW2.
What a fascinating subject. So much of Appalachian speech reminds me of what I have learned of Old English over the years. Your work is well researched and delivered here with infectious enthusiasm. Keep up the good work.
Falo apenas português brasileiro e amei este sotaque dos Apalaches. É muito sonoro e agradável aos meus ouvidos. Parece que as palavras se destacam com muita articulação, como falam os apresentadores dos telejornais. Dá prazer de ouvir, mesmo não entendendo ainda o idioma😆😆😆
Eu moro em Appalachia, no estado da Virgínia Ocidental. Você está certo. É uma linguagem muito lenta e falada com uma língua chata. Muitos colonos alemães aqui no início também. Amor dos EUA.
I am born and raised in Southern California,but, listening to you talking about phrases and words of Appalachia is just crazy. There is hardly a phrase you have said or words you talk about that is new to me. I was raised talking like this!!! I had aunts and uncles from West Virginia, Tennessee, my mom was raised in Iowa. You mentioned the word blared. We would use it for something really loud… mom would tell us to quit Blairin the radio. I’m just now learning about your videos and have enjoyed so much watching them… make me really homesick for all my family that have passed on. I miss them so much. My Aunt from Tennessee literally sounded just like you😊
I actually first heard "rurint" when I moved from Appalachia to Central KY. My husband-to-be used that word. He made fun of my accent, but did not realize he had one of his own!
I so enjoyed this one . .mother and daughter sharing .. My mother grew up in the Ozarks of Missouri. She spoke of "gallouses" for suspenders, "poke" for a sack
Y’all are reminding me of my grandpa who passed at the age of 93. His people came from Tennessee 💜 he used to say “hun reach me that there pork chop.” Or “y’all younguns come on in here and let me hug your necks”. He also used to eat cornbread and buttermilk. And he loved cat heads with red eye. Thanks for what you do
My kids great grandmother on their fathers side came to live with us shortly before she died. She was from ‘North Caroliner’ as she would say. Once I walked into the kitchen where she was eating lunch and she was eating potatoes and tomatoes and she said, “I just love pataters and tamaters”. I loved eat.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Corie has turned out to be such a beautiful and accomplished young lady. She seems very comfortable in front of the camera. I think it's wonderful that your family is helping you in this project, Tipper. Keep up the great work!
ive been down south a few times and evry time i met nice people ,Well behaved and well mannered and happy lol..im from the city up north i hate it, i need some south and southern food mmmm , God bless and be belessed .. Well done Mom and Dad
We would use blare to mean being loud... "he blared the music .." or "He was blarin' the speakers until they blew." Which meant he damaged his speakers by playing them really loud for a long time.
When we were tired someone would offer you a "cheer" to sit in. And if you were cold they would offer you some "kiver" to drape over your lap. At night we kids would sleep on "pallets" of quilts on the floor.
If you live out in the boonies or out in the sticks, then town could be a "fer piece!" ( a far distance away) Mean or gossiping women were referred to as "old biddies" where I'm from. We still say, "hauled off" and punched him.... If someone misbehaves, he's actin' "plumb ugly" (and God don't like ugly!)
I’m familiar with so many of the words that were shared and I think of my grandmother’s because they were the ones who said most of them. I would enjoy you all going live for sure! Thanks Tipper and Corie…❤️🙏
I bought 24 pair of bib overalls to comfort me in my old age. Things I miss about country living, pigtails and rice , sweet tea , fish & grits, smoked catfish, fried chicken gizzards , fried chicken livers, all my people are gone I live in gratitude to God o'mighty !
I knew most of these words because I grew up in the mountains of east Tennessee not too far from Boone, NC. But one expression I had not heard in about 60 years, "scrootch up," meaning to cuddle or hug. 4:38 In the winter we often had to scrootch up just to stay warm. When you "bark your shin" you hit it hard enough to knock the skin off, like knocking the bark off a tree. Anyone who has ever been stung by one will understand the meaning of "wasper." Enjoyed the video. Brought back many memories.
My wife is from Missouri and the first time she said that I laughed and laughed. I caught on to the meaning quickly, but I still like to tease her about it!
Nice comments coming from England. Many words came from the early pioneers and immigrants that settled Appalachian areas. Their heritage was English and Scottish, & some Irish. They brought with them language and customs. Much Appalachian love of music can easily be heard in Scottish, Irish and English folk music.
My grandmother always said, "Well, I swanee!" ... similar to "Land sakes!" or "Sakes Alive!" My mom would say if we wore red lipstick the booger man (devil) would get us.
This confirms what I posted in my earlier comment. THANK YOU! "I have discovered in recent years that my family (from both sides) come from Scotland & Ireland. (I'm more Scottish than Irish, literally lol) The only grandparent I ever knew was my paternal grandmother and I do know that she was born in Georgia (Hall County). On my Mothers side many were born in either the Carolina's or in Mississippi. Hearing these words and phrases makes me believe that there has to be Scottish and Irish influences in the Appalachia way of speaking. I grew up hearing the majority of the words/phrases you talked about, though I rarely hear them now days. There is something quite comforting in hearing them again. THANK YOU! XOXO"
I was originally from West Virginia and l had heard a lot of these sayings One l still tell peole who can't find something right before their eyes l will tell them "if it had been a snake it would have bit you"
OMG the terminology certainly brings back good memories I said to one of my bosses at a plant nursery I worked at do you reckon he looked at me like a country bumpkin and said I might guess or I might imagine but I never reckon I said excuse my country bumpkin ass LOL
I'm all yourn. Whatcha youns doing? Taint done it! I spent my teens in Blowing Rock back in the 70s but we actually lived down the Globe Road (Old Johns River Road) in Headache Hollar. Thank you for creating this channel...its kind of awkward in one way to share something so sacred as the great people settlers of the Blue Ridge and surrounding area. As a military brat we lived in several places but the greatest people I ever knew were the Scott's Irish of Appalachia.
You Ladies really jar my brains with all them sayings. the one about the piece of mirror, and washing. I used to go stay with my aunt and uncle in the summer time and help them work in their Tobacco. when we got done for the day, We used to have to wash off in a wooden barrel at the end of the porch,that had water piped to it from the spring, they kept their milk in a trough and we would wash there at the end where the water ran out,My aunt called it a whore bath. Even the toilet was out side built over a creek, Mercy Me how many folks would or could live like that this day in time. But through all that , i would not trade a minute of it, The food was good, and the bed was soft, and seamed like you could feel the angels tucking you in at night in them dark dark rooms I could not trade a minute of it, Just Not For Sale, Have Been So Blessed By your'e ladies videos . THANKS SO MUCH !
I am familiar with quite a few of those words. Now a couple of phrases that always make me laugh is "tougher than woodpecker lips" and telling people that I'm from Plum Nelly, plum out of town and nelly out of the county
@boo boo yeah it also means stupid in Australia, but I tried to put it in a way that ppl didn't get offended as in the these days to many ppl do, lol. But you hit the hammer on the nail (Aussie slang).
I am reliving my youth with your tales of Appalachia. Seems like I remember all the words and phrases you mentioned in both your tapes on such. I remember squall as having 2 meanings. Squalling like a baby is crying very hard or crying your eyes out. And if someone squalled out at you he was loud and mad at you! My Granddad would say, "what did he low?" Pronounced like the last half of the word "allow". It meant what did he say. He was of Scotch Irish descent.I was born in North Alabama in 1935 and my family moved to East Tennessee in 1940 . In my Junior year of high school We had a new English teacher from some other part of the country. After 1 week with us hillbillys she announced to the class,"there are 3 words I want all of you to delete from your vocabularies. She wrote on the blackboard, uppair, downair, and backair. Someone in the back raised his hand and said, "But ma'am. how am I gonna tell people where I live"!!!!. I love your tapes and you cool a lot like my mother. Please keep up the great work.
My Mother was from LaFollette, TN, at the foothills of the Cumberland Mountains. She used a lot of colorful words and phrases... Like "lookee yander" and "yersty" instead of "yesterday" I love So I can really identify with some of the words and phrases you use. I also feel very much at home with the soft accent of West Virginia or Alabama, even though their words and phraseology might be different.
I know backwards. I'm from the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. My grandmother would "drene" the pot of water. And, thishear, youins, all y'all, just to name a few.
I just hit my "funny bone" (Elbow) !!! You have just kept me up past my bedtime....LOL...just could not quit watching and now I kinda have the giggles soooo wonderin ifin I can go to sleep now....hahahha....and I have a sister who takes "sinkin spells" a lot...and am very familiar with a lot of the sayins you guys touched on tonight!!!
Ha! From Oklahoma! Love your channel. My buddies and I used to go frog-giggin'. They actually make frog-gigs. And I had a 66' Chevelle SuperSport that ran like a 'scalded dog' Being Native American I grew up with folks pointing with their lips. You are awesome. God Bless you and yours!
I just noticed a phrase during the 18th minute that put a smile on my face :). You were telling a story and said you were going down a "squirrel trail." I'm from Massachusetts and I've always heard "rabbit trail" but I knew exactly what you meant. My guess is that rabbits are more common here in the grasses but squirrels are more common in the mountainous woods where you live (though we have plenty of squirrels too lol). Thank you so much for these videos, I've been binging them after finding your channel and it's been such a nice momentary escape from these crazy and stressful times we're living in.
I was in Donegal Ireland once and got lost in the country. I spied a farmer and stopped to ask directions. I told him what I was looking for and he said, "well you're pretty close, it's over *yonder* behind those hills, just keep driving for a few miles and you'll see the signs."
I spent a week in Ireland about ten years ago, and I heard a ton of words and phrases I hadn't heard since my Appalachian mamaw passed away decades ago.
I use to hear these words from my childhood. My parents and grandparents spoke these words all the time. I don't here these words spoken anymore but I do remember them and there meanings. Feels like home when here you speak them.
Learned to talk in southern Indiana real close to Kentucky. Moved to Texas at three and I really had an accent. Got married and moved to the Pacific Northwest. I have been “ribbed” many times over doin’ the worshin’ and arnin’. My hubby loved it when I would tell him the injun light in the car came on and he needed to change the oral. So glad I came across this on YT. You now have a new subscriber to this channel and your blog. Thank you for bringing back some wonderful memories and a few chuckles.
Hi dear hearts! Love this!!! Love your accent! Just love you for doin’ this!!!! Recognition!!! W Va proud in California!!!!sending you these sunflowers❣️🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻❤️
I've heard "blared your eyes" all my life. Thanks for bringing back some precious memories from my childhood. I still use so many of the sayings you talk about. ❤️
I love your videos. In western Pennsylvania we have an accent, pretty strong. I love that every area has their own way of sounding. It makes our culture so rich. You sound wonderful, friendly and good hearted. I come from Scot/Irish ancestors and when I see you , I see a Celtic lady. You have an amazing complexion. I am pale too. I used to want to be able to tan. Now I am glad of my heritage. I would love to visit “your neck of the woods “. I don’t know if you use that term ! God bless you and your lovely family. Can you do more cooking videos ? I love them.
Tipper..I love these words and phrases. Reminds me of my grandparents that I adored in NE Oklahoma. Have you ever heard the phrase...”He’s walking around with his “dobber down”. Meaning he’s feeling low or blue. Or, I’m worn “slap out”. Meaning just feeling tired. How about....He’s was so bent out of shape that he was just “faunching”. Meaning he was throwing a hissy fit. Thanks for taking the time for putting out these videos that bring me such happiness!
If you were to ask my grandparents and older southern (Georgia) relatives how they were feeling, they might respond by saying, "I'm fair to midland" (meaning so-so), or "I'm tollable well", meaning I'm doing better than so-so but not the best!🤣
The Old Yeller Dog Came Trottin' Through the Meetin'-house--same tune, almost, as The Old Gray Mare She Ain't What She Useta Be and the Southern Civil War song Jine the Cavalry. Although a New England Yankee, I play old-time banjer, fiddle, dulcimer, and the like, and I love Southern tunes and music as are typical of Appalachia (by the way, we pronounce it "App-uh-LAY-shee-uh"). How about doing one or several vids about the wonderful music of the area?
I enjoyed your talk very much. I became interested in the mountain speak from a book a friend was reading. Low and behold. I and my folks have been using mountain speak our whole lives. I live in arkansas
Hi, I was raised in Seattle so the words that you share with us are a world away from my upbringing. For this reason I love hearing the accent and your recipes and your interesting words. Seattle could learn a lot from you folks. Thank you for sharing with us.
I grew up in Yakima, but my parents grandparents are from Missouri and Kansas heard many of these saying growing up! Friends would laugh when i used one of them still do....lol
I am from a little town just north of Spokane, but some of my extended family lived in Arkansas when I was little and they moved back - a lot of these sayings are familiar to me and I realize that I use more of them than I thought!
The Applachians extend down to north-central Alabama, and I lived part of my early life on Chigger Ridge, in Cullman County. My grandmother would regularly call me and my brothers and cousins 'heatherns'... Thanks for the video :)
Huh. Interesting. I never thought about it before, but my family has always used the term “biffed it” as in to trip over something, or crash into something.
Just discovered this channel today. I've seen a few of your videos and I will continue watching them for the rest of the night. I'm in the Navy and my deployment starts tomorrow morning and I wont have internet (I'm a submariner) or else I would probably watch all of them before the week is out. My family is spread from South-East Ohio down through North Carolina. I left the area (I am from South East Ohio) when I was about 10 and growing up people have always been fascinated with how I talk. It was only a couple years ago that I realized that it was an Appalachian thing rather than just my family. I love language as well and on top of studying others I enjoy learning about Appalachian language. I remember one time I was left alone to work with a new guy from Kentucky at my first job (When my family left Appalachia we went to Florida) and our manager came back an hour later and he told us he couldn't understand a word either of us was saying. It was a proud moment for me haha. I've found that my accent really comes out if I'm around other Appalachians or if I'm frustrated. Outside of that most people tell me I almost sound Irish, which is funny to me because I do have a bit of Scotts-Irish in me but the majority of both sides of my family come from the same area in Germany, as is the case with most people in the particular town of South-Eastern Ohio that I'm from. That being said I understand that the language in Appalachia was very heavily influenced by Scottish and Irish settlers.
Thanks Tipper and Chatter! I have heard most of the words you mentioned, it's like we have our own language. I love our unique language. I used to work with a guy from up state New Your and occasionally he'd say "Cindy, your country is showing" I will not repeat to you exactly what my response was but know that he knew I did not care what he thought!
Miss Cindy, I am glad you took the step and subscribed. Now we've got to try to convince other people that it don't hurt to subscribe to youtube and that it opens up a whole nother world.
My grandparents, Ma and Da, helped raise me and were from Haywood county, with both their families going way back. They only ended up settling in Texas because my grandfather was military. They’ve been dead a good 20 years and I often look up videos on Appalachian English because hearing their talk helps keep them alive in my heart. It was always over yonder or in yonder and so on. My socks or bare feet were my stocking feet, my backpack was my satchel. I miss them so much.
Fixin is always used around my neck of the woods here in SC. My fav line is Bless your heart which means a variety of things...it could be a good thing or a way a southern lady can tell you off without cursin. We use Waitin, y'alls, towards, fixin, ain't goin, sidewinder (which means a person can't be trusted), plum crazy, a climbin that tree, haint and ghost is interchanged, another one.....he loves him or her more than a fat baby loves an icecream.
Hey tipper. I love hearing you and your families falk talk about southern Appalachian terms and there meanins... it brings me back to when i live in Appalachia just outside of big stone gap...
This was fun. I haven't heard a lot of these terms since I was a child--I can just hear my Granny talking again (in my head). If you were fat, she'd call you chuffy. We had dish rags (not cloths) and the trunk of the car was the boot. Daddy called our behinds "setters" cause that's what you sat on! You might be mad as a "wet-setting hen". I'd love to see you do more of these videos. It brings back a lot of fond memories.
I'm from Michigan, all of my ancestors are from Appalachia, and almost all of those words have been used my whole life, and are now being used by my my adult children. I can promise their being passed on to my young grandchildren! Thank you for this video. I love it, and I love all of you.
I am not from Appalachian proper . I am from what is called the foothills of Appalachia north alabama lookout mountain area . Believe me there was very little difference in speech growing up in the 70s here than where you live . I have been all over north Carolina and i fit in well . I used to be ashamed of how i sounded as a teen and tried to rid myself of my accent . Traveling all over the eastern usa , north and south working i had many comments about my accent . Most were positive. Many a time i heard i love your accent and where you from . This started many friendships that last to this day . The older i get the more i seem to revert back to my old way of speaking . I used to think backwards , poor , uneducated people spoke this way . Life taught me this is far from the truth .
Wow, how funny I run over your comment after I just wrote nearly the same about speaking the way you were raised. I love to know it’s not an uncommon feeling and the appreciation returns.
I am from north Alabama and all of these phrases are part of my everyday speech. I have a friend who was raised near me. She eventually earned a Ph,D and taught at a prestigious university in Virginia. Both of us are into genealogy. Growing up, she said her mother would embarrass her when she would say they were descendants of Scots-Arish. During her research, she learned that is how people are referred to if they descent from Scots-Irish.
Wow, I heard barefooted in lower metro Detroit area. My Uncle pastored a baptist church and there were a lot of people from the south. My Grandma's parents or grandparents came from West Virginia - maybe heard it from her.
Pokey or to poke is to be slow The wide eye- not be able to sleep Devils strip - the median Warsh instead of wash Gummed up We also say crayon like “cran” syrup like “serp” and orange like “orng”
I’ve heard people here in South Mississippi use “blare” before as in looking at someone in a menacing way. We also go frog gigging! 😄. Scalded dog is also used here.
I have to tell you! Your channel is the closest thing to home for me! I’ll be spending a lot of time on here as I am fascinated by your genuine content! Thank you so much.
Back in the earlier days, discipline was usually physical. The old Yankees believed that "The woman, the dog, and the walnut tree--the more you beat 'em the better they be!"
My Grandpa and 7 other siblings was born in Kentucky, his father and mother also (eventually settling in upper WI along with a whole 'tribe' of Kentuckians, so we now call it CranTucky (name Crandon) we're all kind of related in the town I grew up in. Hundreds settled there because of logging camps in Northern WI). I grew up on a lot of these phrases and still use them with my kids. Sometimes they look at me kind of funny and ask, "alright where'd that one come from" and I just chuckle. Listening to this - watching your cooking videos, which match real close to how I was taught to cook the same dishes and brought back so many memories of my Grandparents, mom and home town 'folk'.
I might ask a guy, "Jeet yet?" He might respond, "Naw, joo?" Then I might say, "It's pert near lunch time, an' I'm hankerin' for somethin' to eat!" Then we'd skedaddle for some vittles.
" It makes me no never mind " That's a mouth full ..lol some folks use words in strange ways ... I like it when folks are straight shooters .. few words straight to their point .. intellectually honest .. not having to read into what ever ... emotionally neutral on the kind side ... some folks take things personal when not meant in that way ... having a difficulty with some one can be tough ... sense words often mean something different to each individual ... & than there's the things / notions we were raised with ... many things get labeled complicated when it's nard to articulate what you wanting to communicate ... finding the right words & all ...
Up in the mountains of Gilmer County, Georgia, dating was/is referred to as “sparking.” It could be intransitive (“they were sparking for several months before they got married “) or transitive (“he is sparking the Smith girl”). Most of my people there still say this.
So enjoy your videos. I can hear my grandparents talking when you talk. Grandpa’s family migrated from Tennessee to Arkansas Grandpa has been gone for over 10 years and I miss him so. Your videos of the sayings and language of Appalachia reminds me of how he and Grandma talked. Mess and gomming around is just one along with calling me Geaner. My cousins called me Gina but they always called me Geaner. So neat to hear.
Love your show! I can talk the talk with you. I am 76 and I was born and raised 9n a little coal mining town in southern WVa.. Been a Yankee for a lot of years but will never out grow my love for my Appalachian roots. Good Bless and stay safe. ♥ My mama called batteries batries.
@@emilylee5109 I have family in East Point, Dalton and Dallas, Georgia. I claim Ga as my second home. Beautiful state. We had more fun there. As soon as School was out we would go visit my grandmother and my cousins. Loved swimming in cold creeks in the summertime!!
I was born in Florida in 1952. My ancestors came from England, Ireland, and Scotland. They wound up in Southern Alabama and some wound up in Florida. I think many of those words came from over there. I remember MANY of the sayings. I heard Frog gigging many times. We grew up saying barefooted also. SO many more!
In South Texas I grew up and older folks would say-"well, he/she is a bit backwards" with an S..or "they got put together with a backwards piece". Meant they were a bit off, not really shy. So cool how there are different meanings. Love this channel and videos!!
My dad was raised in Buncombe County North Carolina and my mom was raised in south eastern Kentucky. We say a lot of us words that I don’t even think are strange until I start paying attention to what I’m saying. I am proud of my heritage and I love Kentucky and North Carolina. My son says winder and yeller I think just to try to get on my nerves. But I still say yonder and youguns,barefooted. I just found your blog and really enjoy it.
I’d love a live video!! My Dad is from KY so a lot of this makes sense to me, my dad said my husband run’t me because I got spoilt, I didn’t have chores or run to fetch tools etc... I love the ole words and purposely use them, I’m 63...
My friend had an uncle who when asked how he was coming along would say, oh I'm tendin' and lettin'. Meaning I'm tending to my business and letting yours alone.
Over the last several years I have fallen in love with that area of the country riding motorcycles at Deals Gap in N.C. and hiking on the Appalachian Trail out of Amicalola State Park in Georgia. The people in the south are such friendly colorful people and a lot of the language I've also heard in my family in Missouri. Love your family and how close you guys are and also your UA-cam pages...keep up the good work.
Frog Giggin' 'round here was done with a hand held line with a safety pin with red felt for bait floated it out on the pond ... Mom always said that frog legs was good eatin'
My dad was a frog gigger. I’ve eaten many a plate of frog legs in my life. Love hearing all this stuff.... some I’ve heard and my parents used a lot of them. I enjoy the explanations of them. You guys do a great job♥️
my 28 year old daughter told me 2 days ago she didn’t know what a divan was...I said-you know a couch! A divan! I didn’t realize I had never used that word around her...When did I stop using it?
A batten in the theatre is a long pole you hang backdrops, curtains, scrims, or lights. Have you ever heard “sigh goggling” or “whomppy jawed” for crooked?
Thank you for sharing this! I miss my grandparents! We were definitely different in Indiana! 😂 I was asked several times, are you foreign? I was like huh, I was born here! 😂😂😂 my mom is from Kentucky and dads from Tennessee so I’m a hillbilly 😂😂😂 but yes, this was awesome, made me feel at home again! 😢 I would enjoy a live video but probably won’t chat much. I’m shy ☺️ love y’all, may you be blessed 😀🙏🏼❤️
That was so much fun! Thank you! I grew up in Chicago and have heard a surprising number of the terms you cited - and some have even been used within my family. I love linguistics and etymology. I am going to check out a couple of those books.
Wow, your daughter has a great deal of poise, grace, and beauty. You can tell she's raised right.
Those Two Young Ladies are just Precious! I'm awfully partial to well mannered folks and Momma and Daddy have EVERY RIGHT to their pride in their gals!
Reminds me that I'm still 20 from the neck up!
Cute as can be!
Sweet as soda pop
Just read your post!! Amazingly, we used same words to describe this lovely young lady!! Of course were right.. But I can't think of anyone , certainly not on you tube... Who I've ever gone out of my way to describe as poised!!! But she is... Strikingly so!!! How cool that we both thought same exact tbing!!!
Batteries were called battreys, windows called winders, yellow called yeller. Many of these terms were English in origin, but shortened through the years.
What about Amalance. She was so sick they had to call an Amalance.
Actually it's more Scots-irish brogue that got 'Merican-ized.obviously with English throwed in.a lot of folks also don't pay attention to German immigrants that wanted mountains and have showed up,in mountain regions as well.
These words are just like they sound in Pennsylvania
@@TemplePriestess Western. Pennsylvania?
Oh these all make me so homesick!!! I never hear these words so much anymore. Truly the sad part is, growing up, I thought sounding like “my people” didn’t make me sound like I knew the “proper” pronunciation (at least per the spelling.) Now, I am proud of annunciation my relatives have and some still use. I’m recording as much as I can recall! I’ve even taught my husband a few “backhome” words along the way.
You two women are **awesome!**
I'm from New Zealand and I haven't been to Appalachia yet but I'd love to go there! The mountains and forests, the wonderful people with your language, music and culture! Oh, and I'll bet the food is awesome too!
Love from New Zealand!
I was born in TN and have lived most of my professional life in AZ. One time I was working with a contractor and I asked her “Yahwnt to go to lunch”.... She looked back at me puzzled and asked me what ? I repeated myself 3 times and then just decided to help her out and I told her “Yahwnt” is short for Do you want to. I then repeated myself again asking her “Do you want to go to lunch?”. I explained that sometimes folks in the South will combine words to reduce the number of words needed.
Yeah we always said "yawahto", to ask a question.
Southerners elide words. Appalachians add extry words.
Ever heard of someone or something being hit so hard, " They were Knocked Ball Winding" ?? From Southside VA. Y'all always take me back in time, Thanks a bunch!! DLS !!
We do similar in parts of Michigan. The commonest one is "Jeet yet?" Which means "did you eat yet?" It's more prevalently used in the northern and rural parts of the state, but just about everyone knows what it means when they hear it.
"Piddlin' ". For example, I ain't been doing much today, but piddlin' around in the garden". I still say hissy fit & "I swear" is another one too. "Fixin' to" is in my daily vocabulary too. My mamaw would always say " bless your heart".
We use piddeling a lot in Alabama
Yes! "Whachall doin?" "Piddlin round the house"
@@earthmama5561 We use that at work all the time. They need to quit piddeling around and get going we ain't never gonna get done
@@alabamasmokeywilson6818 now goofing off is different... that's fiddlefarting 🤣😂
@@alabamasmokeywilson6818 piddling is more if you have nothing specific scheduled, but don't wanna just sit and do nothing.
I remember Granny sayn.."growin like a weed"..grandpa say" he's knee high to a grasshopper" "wet like a dog's hind leg"..I so miss my grandparents..bless them and all their knowledge🙏🙏✝️✝️
Im in Kentucky, raised sons in Ohio, my sons friends slept over and I said I’ll make you boys a pallet in front of the TV, those boys looked at my sons and said what did she say what is a pallet ,,,,,we all know it’s blankets and pillows spread nicely on the floor ✋🏻
If something was difficult, my grandma would say it was 'like pulling hen's teeth'. Wow, all these sayings took me right back to my grandma's ....and my dad's regular speech. How are you Pop? "Fine as Christmas candy", he'd say.
We use pallet in Alabama.
I’ve slept on a pallet many times and made pallets for my children. I am from north Alabama.
Robert Sparkman HI ROBERT,,,IM IN KENTUCKY,,,MY GRANDPARENTS WERE REAL HOMESTEADERS,,THEY HAD 21 CHILDREN ,,,ITS BECAUSE THERE WAS NO FORM OF BIRTH CONTROL😁,,, YOU SHOULD WATCH ,CELEBRATING APPALACHIA, SHE TALKS IN SOME VIDEOS ABOUT OUR WORDS ,,OUR SAYINGS,, ITS VERY INTERESTING,,,IVE SPOKEN THESE WORDS MY WHOLE LIFE IT FASCINATES ME KNOWING ITS OUR LANGUAGE,, COUNTRY,, APPALACHIAN,, FOLKS SPEAK AND UNDERSTAND OUR OWN LANGUAGE ,,,I LOVE IT,,WHEN A CITY PERSON LOOKS TO SOMEONE AND SAYS ,,,WHAT DID SHE SAY 😆
@@Robert_Sparkman_01 a pallet is when one takes several homemade quilts-enough for padding so the kids don’t feel as though they are sleeping directly on the floor-a pillow for each kid, and more homemade quilts for cover. When my grandma was dying, mother’s siblings took turns going to my aunt’s house where grandma was staying. Pallets were made for the kids because my aunt didn’t have enough beds for the adults and kids. During this time I formed friendships with cousins whom I rarely saw. In hushed voices while lying in the dark on a pallet, my nine year old cousin taught me at age seven how to spell Mississippi-M, I, Crookie letter, crookie letter, I, crookie letter, crookie letter, I, humpback, humpback, I.
"Straighten up and fly right! " (stop misbehaving), and "addled" (dizzy/confused/concussed , maybe because you hit your head). We're from Watauga county , North Carolina, and hear/use a lot of these words and phases still.
Yep, good one ,
I was told that and used it on my children. When my dad uttered those words, I knew to straighten up and fly right or he would take the strop to my backside.
Mama said that too! Avery County
My dad, from mountains of North Carolina used to say - Great day in the morning!
Much better to say Great day! than saying “good morning”... the word morning is too closely related in spelling and the sound is exact to the word mourning, which is the aftermath of death, which is an oxymoron because the morning itself is full of light with the sun which gives life.
My grandfather said this a lot. It was usually expressive, like an exclamation particularly said in dismay.
My dad , (from SW Virginia) used to say that a lot too.
Havent heard that one for years! My mom used to say it.
best place in the world to grow up was in Asheville-Black Mountain area of the mountains of Western North Carolina. My parents were born and died there only time they left the mountains was while Dad was in WW2.
My maternal grandmother aka "Granny" was from southeastern Kentucky and she'd say things like "purt near and might nigh".
Might could rain today.
Part near, might nigh, almost is what I heard always all three together.
Purt near was used on a daily basis here.
Those terms are very familiar to me-I used them quite often. I am from north Alabama.
Your daughter is delightful! What a sweetheart. Love this.
Thank you!! And thanks for watching!
What a fascinating subject. So much of Appalachian speech reminds me of what I have learned of Old English over the years. Your work is well researched and delivered here with infectious enthusiasm. Keep up the good work.
Falo apenas português brasileiro e amei este sotaque dos Apalaches. É muito sonoro e agradável aos meus ouvidos. Parece que as palavras se destacam com muita articulação, como falam os apresentadores dos telejornais. Dá prazer de ouvir, mesmo não entendendo ainda o idioma😆😆😆
Eu moro em Appalachia, no estado da Virgínia Ocidental. Você está certo. É uma linguagem muito lenta e falada com uma língua chata. Muitos colonos alemães aqui no início também. Amor dos EUA.
I am born and raised in Southern California,but, listening to you talking about phrases and words of Appalachia is just crazy. There is hardly a phrase you have said or words you talk about that is new to me. I was raised talking like this!!!
I had aunts and uncles from West Virginia, Tennessee, my mom was raised in Iowa. You mentioned the word blared. We would use it for something really loud… mom would tell us to quit Blairin the radio. I’m just now learning about your videos and have enjoyed so much watching them… make me really homesick for all my family that have passed on. I miss them so much. My Aunt from Tennessee literally sounded just like you😊
So glad you're enjoying our videos 🙂
What about rurnt?... spoiled them youngins are rurnt.
I actually first heard "rurint" when I moved from Appalachia to Central KY. My husband-to-be used that word. He made fun of my accent, but did not realize he had one of his own!
Ruint...😠🤣😂
It's similar to ruined which my mum used to say about spoilt children, I just remembered it. My mum was Irish and I was born in England.
Today’s kids are rurnt 😂
I so enjoyed this one . .mother and daughter sharing .. My mother grew up in the Ozarks of Missouri. She spoke of "gallouses" for suspenders, "poke" for a sack
Y’all are reminding me of my grandpa who passed at the age of 93. His people came from Tennessee 💜 he used to say “hun reach me that there pork chop.” Or “y’all younguns come on in here and let me hug your necks”. He also used to eat cornbread and buttermilk. And he loved cat heads with red eye. Thanks for what you do
We called cornbread and buttermilk clabber and man oh man it was good !
What is cat heads with red eye?😂
Now I'm hungry for some cat head biscuits and red eye gravy😋
@@janetholley1004 😂🤣
Ummm what are cat heads and red eye!! Im from washington state. :)
My kids great grandmother on their fathers side came to live with us shortly before she died. She was from ‘North Caroliner’ as she would say. Once I walked into the kitchen where she was eating lunch and she was eating potatoes and tomatoes and she said, “I just love pataters and tamaters”. I loved eat.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Corie has turned out to be such a beautiful and accomplished young lady. She seems very comfortable in front of the camera. I think it's wonderful that your family is helping you in this project, Tipper. Keep up the great work!
Paula-thank you for watching! My family is a huge help in everything I do : )
ive been down south a few times and evry time i met nice people ,Well behaved and well mannered and happy lol..im from the city up north i hate it, i need some south and southern food mmmm , God bless and be belessed .. Well done Mom and Dad
One of my grandma’s common terms for aggravation was “flustrated”
We would use blare to mean being loud... "he blared the music .." or "He was blarin' the speakers until they blew." Which meant he damaged his speakers by playing them really loud for a long time.
Same
When we were tired someone would offer you a "cheer" to sit in. And if you were cold they would offer you some "kiver" to drape over your lap. At night we kids would sleep on "pallets" of quilts on the floor.
If you live out in the boonies or out in the sticks, then town could be a "fer piece!" ( a far distance away) Mean or gossiping women were referred to as "old biddies" where I'm from. We still say, "hauled off" and punched him.... If someone misbehaves, he's actin' "plumb ugly" (and God don't like ugly!)
If i was to haul off and punch someone, it would mean i would put some effort into it. I would set that fool down.
I “nigh/neigh/near bout” believe we could be neighbors! We used many of the wordings you mentioned in my small town!
I’m familiar with so many of the words that were shared and I think of my grandmother’s because they were the ones who said most of them. I would enjoy you all going live for sure! Thanks Tipper and Corie…❤️🙏
I bought 24 pair of bib overalls to comfort me in my old age. Things I miss about country living, pigtails and rice , sweet tea , fish & grits, smoked catfish, fried chicken gizzards , fried chicken livers, all my people are gone I live in gratitude to God o'mighty !
Not being sentimental but wish I had grown up in a simpler era. Wiser, kinder women, so talented. God bless your family.
I knew most of these words because I grew up in the mountains of east Tennessee not too far from Boone, NC. But one expression I had not heard in about 60 years, "scrootch up," meaning to cuddle or hug. 4:38 In the winter we often had to scrootch up just to stay warm.
When you "bark your shin" you hit it hard enough to knock the skin off, like knocking the bark off a tree. Anyone who has ever been stung by one will understand the meaning of "wasper."
Enjoyed the video. Brought back many memories.
Glad you enjoyed the video 😀
My dogs are barkin' (my feet hurt)
My friend from Scotland used this phrase.
My wife is from Missouri and the first time she said that I laughed and laughed. I caught on to the meaning quickly, but I still like to tease her about it!
Nice comments coming from England.
Many words came from the early pioneers and immigrants that settled Appalachian areas. Their heritage was English and Scottish, & some Irish. They brought with them language and customs.
Much Appalachian love of music can easily be heard in Scottish, Irish and English folk music.
My grandmother always said, "Well, I swanee!" ... similar to "Land sakes!" or "Sakes Alive!" My mom would say if we wore red lipstick the booger man (devil) would get us.
My grandma and mom said that, too. Sometimes it was just "Well, I swan!" I said it as a kid. I miss hearing that.
@@totto79121 Oh, really? That's interesting! My sisters and I never heard it except here in Western NC, and always wondered how it originated.
Lol my grandmother used to say this! Makes me miss her. ❤️🙏
My late Grandmommie said that, too! I miss her so much every day!
I SWAN - EE! Is nice speak for 'I swear', which nice women didn't swear!
Love to hear you talk, i hear my grandma in your voice, my family comes from Oconee county South Carolina
Loved this, we use these or slight variants of the expressions in western Scotland 🏴💚
This confirms what I posted in my earlier comment. THANK YOU!
"I have discovered in recent years that my family (from both sides) come from Scotland & Ireland. (I'm more Scottish than Irish, literally lol) The only grandparent I ever knew was my paternal grandmother and I do know that she was born in Georgia (Hall County). On my Mothers side many were born in either the Carolina's or in Mississippi. Hearing these words and phrases makes me believe that there has to be Scottish and Irish influences in the Appalachia way of speaking. I grew up hearing the majority of the words/phrases you talked about, though I rarely hear them now days. There is something quite comforting in hearing them again. THANK YOU! XOXO"
I was originally from West Virginia and l had heard a lot of these sayings One l still tell peole who can't find something right before their eyes l will tell them "if it had been a snake it would have bit you"
OMG the terminology certainly brings back good memories I said to one of my bosses at a plant nursery I worked at do you reckon he looked at me like a country bumpkin and said I might guess or I might imagine but I never reckon I said excuse my country bumpkin ass LOL
I love this comment.goodnight johnboy.xx
From Louisiana, we said that a lot🤣, I guess we had trouble finding things...
I am from north Alabama and use this term regularly.
My mom always said that. We grew up in Chicago, but my mom’s family moved west from Virginia and Kentucky.
I'm all yourn. Whatcha youns doing? Taint done it! I spent my teens in Blowing Rock back in the 70s but we actually lived down the Globe Road (Old Johns River Road) in Headache Hollar.
Thank you for creating this channel...its kind of awkward in one way to share something so sacred as the great people settlers of the Blue Ridge and surrounding area. As a military brat we lived in several places but the greatest people I ever knew were the Scott's Irish of Appalachia.
You Ladies really jar my brains with all them sayings. the one about the piece of mirror, and washing. I used to go stay with my aunt and uncle in the summer time and help them work in their Tobacco. when we got done for the day, We used to have to wash off in a wooden barrel at the end of the porch,that had water piped to it from the spring, they kept their milk in a trough and we would wash there at the end where the water ran out,My aunt called it a whore bath. Even the toilet was out side built over a creek, Mercy Me how many folks would or could live like that this day in time. But through all that , i would not trade a minute of it, The food was good, and the bed was soft, and seamed like you could feel the angels tucking you in at night in them dark dark rooms I could not trade a minute of it, Just Not For Sale, Have Been So Blessed By your'e ladies videos . THANKS SO MUCH !
I am familiar with quite a few of those words. Now a couple of phrases that always make me laugh is "tougher than woodpecker lips" and telling people that I'm from Plum Nelly, plum out of town and nelly out of the county
Those are good.
Just watching and heard you use the word "backwards" to describe someone who is shy. My Mom used to say "bakerds"
yep... from Louisiana .. Backards :)
In Australia, backwards means someone who is slow mentally.
@boo boo yeah it also means stupid in Australia, but I tried to put it in a way that ppl didn't get offended as in the these days to many ppl do, lol. But you hit the hammer on the nail (Aussie slang).
I am reliving my youth with your tales of Appalachia. Seems like I remember all the words and phrases you mentioned in both your tapes on such. I remember squall as having 2 meanings. Squalling like a baby is crying very hard or crying your eyes out. And if someone squalled out at you he was loud and mad at you! My Granddad would say, "what did he low?" Pronounced like the last half of the word "allow". It meant what did he say. He was of Scotch Irish descent.I was born in North Alabama in 1935 and my family moved to East Tennessee in 1940 . In my Junior year of high school We had a new English teacher from some other part of the country. After 1 week with us hillbillys she announced to the class,"there are 3 words I want all of you to delete from your vocabularies. She wrote on the blackboard, uppair, downair, and backair. Someone in the back raised his hand and said, "But ma'am. how am I gonna tell people where I live"!!!!. I love your tapes and you cool a lot like my mother. Please keep up the great work.
Thank you!
My Mother was from LaFollette, TN, at the foothills of the Cumberland Mountains. She used a lot of colorful words and phrases... Like "lookee yander" and "yersty" instead of "yesterday" I love So I can really identify with some of the words and phrases you use. I also feel very much at home with the soft accent of West Virginia or Alabama, even though their words and phraseology might be different.
I was born in LaFollette! We said stuff like "lookee yander" when I was a kid too.
This is where I live!
I know backwards. I'm from the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. My grandmother would "drene" the pot of water. And, thishear, youins, all y'all, just to name a few.
I just hit my "funny bone" (Elbow) !!! You have just kept me up past my bedtime....LOL...just could not quit watching and now I kinda have the giggles soooo wonderin ifin I can go to sleep now....hahahha....and I have a sister who takes "sinkin spells" a lot...and am very familiar with a lot of the sayins you guys touched on tonight!!!
Just checked the time and it is 1:06 am and counting
Ha! From Oklahoma! Love your channel. My buddies and I used to go frog-giggin'. They actually make frog-gigs. And I had a 66' Chevelle SuperSport that ran like a 'scalded dog' Being Native American I grew up with folks pointing with their lips.
You are awesome. God Bless you and yours!
ndnpony Did you go snaggin then?!
I just noticed a phrase during the 18th minute that put a smile on my face :). You were telling a story and said you were going down a "squirrel trail." I'm from Massachusetts and I've always heard "rabbit trail" but I knew exactly what you meant. My guess is that rabbits are more common here in the grasses but squirrels are more common in the mountainous woods where you live (though we have plenty of squirrels too lol). Thank you so much for these videos, I've been binging them after finding your channel and it's been such a nice momentary escape from these crazy and stressful times we're living in.
I was in Donegal Ireland once and got lost in the country. I spied a farmer and stopped to ask directions. I told him what I was looking for and he said, "well you're pretty close, it's over *yonder* behind those hills, just keep driving for a few miles and you'll see the signs."
popeye1250 we say yonder...
I spent a week in Ireland about ten years ago, and I heard a ton of words and phrases I hadn't heard since my Appalachian mamaw passed away decades ago.
I love your videos!
I use to hear these words from my childhood. My parents and grandparents spoke these words all the time. I don't here these words spoken anymore but I do remember them and there meanings. Feels like home when here you speak them.
Love your channel. My dad grew up in Wayne County in Kentucky. He used to call the school bus a yellow hammer.
Learned to talk in southern Indiana real close to Kentucky. Moved to Texas at three and I really had an accent. Got married and moved to the Pacific Northwest. I have been “ribbed” many times over doin’ the worshin’ and arnin’. My hubby loved it when I would tell him the injun light in the car came on and he needed to change the oral. So glad I came across this on YT. You now have a new subscriber to this channel and your blog. Thank you for bringing back some wonderful memories and a few chuckles.
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Hi dear hearts! Love this!!! Love your accent! Just love you for doin’ this!!!! Recognition!!! W Va proud in California!!!!sending you these sunflowers❣️🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻❤️
I've heard "blared your eyes" all my life. Thanks for bringing back some precious memories from my childhood. I still use so many of the sayings you talk about. ❤️
I love your videos. In western Pennsylvania we have an accent, pretty strong. I love that every area has their own way of sounding. It makes our culture so rich. You sound wonderful, friendly and good hearted. I come from Scot/Irish ancestors and when I see you , I see a Celtic lady. You have an amazing complexion. I am pale too. I used to want to be able to tan. Now I am glad of my heritage. I would love to visit “your neck of the woods “. I don’t know if you use that term ! God bless you and your lovely family. Can you do more cooking videos ? I love them.
Tipper..I love these words and phrases. Reminds me of my grandparents that I adored in NE Oklahoma. Have you ever heard the phrase...”He’s walking around with his “dobber down”. Meaning he’s feeling low or blue. Or, I’m worn “slap out”. Meaning just feeling tired. How about....He’s was so bent out of shape that he was just “faunching”. Meaning he was throwing a hissy fit. Thanks for taking the time for putting out these videos that bring me such happiness!
If you were to ask my grandparents and older southern (Georgia) relatives how they were feeling, they might respond by saying, "I'm fair to midland" (meaning so-so), or "I'm tollable well", meaning I'm doing better than so-so but not the best!🤣
Fair to midland, most midland
@@MT-tu8qd oh ok. I’ve never heard “most midland.” Priceless!😄
That similar to very old English 'middling',
@@nikkioshea4139 oh wow! Does it have the same meaning (feeling so-so)?
@@TheBiblicalDreamInterpreter yes it has the same meaning I believe.
All these words & sayings!!! I use them still today & so do all my people (blood kin or not) love it all! Sad it's dying 😢
The Old Yeller Dog Came Trottin' Through the Meetin'-house--same tune, almost, as The Old Gray Mare She Ain't What She Useta Be and the Southern Civil War song Jine the Cavalry. Although a New England Yankee, I play old-time banjer, fiddle, dulcimer, and the like, and I love Southern tunes and music as are typical of Appalachia (by the way, we pronounce it "App-uh-LAY-shee-uh"). How about doing one or several vids about the wonderful music of the area?
I enjoyed your talk very much. I became interested in the mountain speak from a book a friend was reading. Low and behold. I and my folks have been using mountain speak our whole lives. I live in arkansas
Hi, I was raised in Seattle so the words that you share with us are a world away from my upbringing. For this reason I love hearing the accent and your recipes and your interesting words. Seattle could learn a lot from you folks. Thank you for sharing with us.
I grew up in Yakima, but my parents grandparents are from Missouri and Kansas heard many of these saying growing up! Friends would laugh when i used one of them still do....lol
I am from a little town just north of Spokane, but some of my extended family lived in Arkansas when I was little and they moved back - a lot of these sayings are familiar to me and I realize that I use more of them than I thought!
The Applachians extend down to north-central Alabama, and I lived part of my early life on Chigger Ridge, in Cullman County. My grandmother would regularly call me and my brothers and cousins 'heatherns'... Thanks for the video :)
YES! That's what the children in our family are called, lovingly of course! lol
Huh. Interesting. I never thought about it before, but my family has always used the term “biffed it” as in to trip over something, or crash into something.
Just discovered this channel today. I've seen a few of your videos and I will continue watching them for the rest of the night. I'm in the Navy and my deployment starts tomorrow morning and I wont have internet (I'm a submariner) or else I would probably watch all of them before the week is out. My family is spread from South-East Ohio down through North Carolina. I left the area (I am from South East Ohio) when I was about 10 and growing up people have always been fascinated with how I talk. It was only a couple years ago that I realized that it was an Appalachian thing rather than just my family. I love language as well and on top of studying others I enjoy learning about Appalachian language. I remember one time I was left alone to work with a new guy from Kentucky at my first job (When my family left Appalachia we went to Florida) and our manager came back an hour later and he told us he couldn't understand a word either of us was saying. It was a proud moment for me haha. I've found that my accent really comes out if I'm around other Appalachians or if I'm frustrated. Outside of that most people tell me I almost sound Irish, which is funny to me because I do have a bit of Scotts-Irish in me but the majority of both sides of my family come from the same area in Germany, as is the case with most people in the particular town of South-Eastern Ohio that I'm from. That being said I understand that the language in Appalachia was very heavily influenced by Scottish and Irish settlers.
Thank you for watching!! Hoping your deployment goes well! Thank you for your service too!
Thanks Tipper and Chatter! I have heard most of the words you mentioned, it's like we have our own language. I love our unique language. I used to work with a guy from up state New Your and occasionally he'd say "Cindy, your country is showing" I will not repeat to you exactly what my response was but know that he knew I did not care what he thought!
Thank you for watching the video-and for helping keep our language alive!!
Miss Cindy, I am glad you took the step and subscribed. Now we've got to try to convince other people that it don't hurt to subscribe to youtube and that it opens up a whole nother world.
My grandparents, Ma and Da, helped raise me and were from Haywood county, with both their families going way back. They only ended up settling in Texas because my grandfather was military. They’ve been dead a good 20 years and I often look up videos on Appalachian English because hearing their talk helps keep them alive in my heart. It was always over yonder or in yonder and so on. My socks or bare feet were my stocking feet, my backpack was my satchel. I miss them so much.
Blare was used frequently in our family in reference to eyes. I came from a very old family in Tidewater, Va.
We would say bawling and blaring meaning hollering in a bit of a fit.
Fixin is always used around my neck of the woods here in SC. My fav line is Bless your heart which means a variety of things...it could be a good thing or a way a southern lady can tell you off without cursin. We use Waitin, y'alls, towards, fixin, ain't goin, sidewinder (which means a person can't be trusted), plum crazy, a climbin that tree, haint and ghost is interchanged, another one.....he loves him or her more than a fat baby loves an icecream.
Howdy ladies, I'm from up here in WV, glad to see we still have some respectable women in the country. Hats off to y'all.
Hey tipper. I love hearing you and your families falk talk about southern Appalachian terms and there meanins... it brings me back to when i live in Appalachia just outside of big stone gap...
I'm glad 😀
This was fun. I haven't heard a lot of these terms since I was a child--I can just hear my Granny talking again (in my head). If you were fat, she'd call you chuffy. We had dish rags (not cloths) and the trunk of the car was the boot. Daddy called our behinds "setters" cause that's what you sat on! You might be mad as a "wet-setting hen". I'd love to see you do more of these videos. It brings back a lot of fond memories.
I'm from Michigan, all of my ancestors are from Appalachia, and almost all of those words have been used my whole life, and are now being used by my my adult children. I can promise their being passed on to my young grandchildren! Thank you for this video. I love it, and I love all of you.
Thank you Laurie 😀
I am not from Appalachian proper . I am from what is called the foothills of Appalachia north alabama lookout mountain area . Believe me there was very little difference in speech growing up in the 70s here than where you live . I have been all over north Carolina and i fit in well . I used to be ashamed of how i sounded as a teen and tried to rid myself of my accent . Traveling all over the eastern usa , north and south working i had many comments about my accent . Most were positive. Many a time i heard i love your accent and where you from . This started many friendships that last to this day . The older i get the more i seem to revert back to my old way of speaking . I used to think backwards , poor , uneducated people spoke this way . Life taught me this is far from the truth .
Wow, how funny I run over your comment after I just wrote nearly the same about speaking the way you were raised. I love to know it’s not an uncommon feeling and the appreciation returns.
I am from north Alabama and all of these phrases are part of my everyday speech. I have a friend who was raised near me. She eventually earned a Ph,D and taught at a prestigious university in Virginia. Both of us are into genealogy. Growing up, she said her mother would embarrass her when she would say they were descendants of Scots-Arish. During her research, she learned that is how people are referred to if they descent from Scots-Irish.
They may have been from the back woods, not had much money and not stayed in school BUT it does not mean they stupid!
Yes this happened to me as well. Now I'm so proud of where I come from!!!
In east tennessee when someone was super slow they would say you're slower then molasses.
In Chicago too!
Our mom said, “You’re slower than molasses in January.”
@@Meggish62 My gramma used to say that!
Wow, I heard barefooted in lower metro Detroit area. My Uncle pastored a baptist church and there were a lot of people from the south. My Grandma's parents or grandparents came from West Virginia - maybe heard it from her.
I'm from the flatwoods of Tennessee and have heard and use most all of these words. I enjoy your videos a bunch.
I used to work with a man from central California who would go frog gigging. I had never heard the term before or since until I saw this video. 🙂
Pokey or to poke is to be slow
The wide eye- not be able to sleep
Devils strip - the median
Warsh instead of wash
Gummed up
We also say crayon like “cran” syrup like “serp” and orange like “orng”
I’ve heard people here in South Mississippi use “blare” before as in looking at someone in a menacing way. We also go frog gigging! 😄. Scalded dog is also used here.
I have to tell you! Your channel is the closest thing to home for me! I’ll be spending a lot of time on here as I am fascinated by your genuine content! Thank you so much.
Thank you! That makes my day 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia I’m glad of that! You have no idea what your channel does for me! God bless you dear woman!
If my mom blared her eyes at us, we were going to get a whuppin’!
Back in the earlier days, discipline was usually physical. The old Yankees believed that "The woman, the dog, and the walnut tree--the more you beat 'em the better they be!"
My Grandpa and 7 other siblings was born in Kentucky, his father and mother also (eventually settling in upper WI along with a whole 'tribe' of Kentuckians, so we now call it CranTucky (name Crandon) we're all kind of related in the town I grew up in. Hundreds settled there because of logging camps in Northern WI). I grew up on a lot of these phrases and still use them with my kids. Sometimes they look at me kind of funny and ask, "alright where'd that one come from" and I just chuckle. Listening to this - watching your cooking videos, which match real close to how I was taught to cook the same dishes and brought back so many memories of my Grandparents, mom and home town 'folk'.
Thank you for sharing 🙂
I might ask a guy, "Jeet yet?" He might respond, "Naw, joo?" Then I might say, "It's pert near lunch time, an' I'm hankerin' for somethin' to eat!" Then we'd skedaddle for some vittles.
" It makes me no never mind " That's a mouth full ..lol some folks use words in strange ways ... I like it when folks are straight shooters .. few words straight to their point .. intellectually honest .. not having to read into what ever ... emotionally neutral on the kind side ... some folks take things personal when not meant in that way ... having a difficulty with some one can be tough ... sense words often mean something different to each individual ... & than there's the things / notions we were raised with ... many things get labeled complicated when it's nard to articulate what you wanting to communicate ... finding the right words & all ...
Up in the mountains of Gilmer County, Georgia, dating was/is referred to as “sparking.” It could be intransitive (“they were sparking for several months before they got married “) or transitive (“he is sparking the Smith girl”). Most of my people there still say this.
So enjoy your videos. I can hear my grandparents talking when you talk. Grandpa’s family migrated from Tennessee to Arkansas Grandpa has been gone for over 10 years and I miss him so. Your videos of the sayings and language of Appalachia reminds me of how he and Grandma talked. Mess and gomming around is just one along with calling me Geaner. My cousins called me Gina but they always called me Geaner. So neat to hear.
Nana would also say "warsh" the clothes,preferred to bed sheets as "bed clothes", and underwear as " unde rclothes".
We say bed clothes as well.
Love your show! I can talk the talk with you. I am 76 and I was born and raised 9n a little coal mining town in southern WVa.. Been a Yankee for a lot of years but will never out grow my love for my Appalachian roots. Good Bless and stay safe. ♥ My mama called batteries batries.
I'm from MS, we use all those as well. 🥰✌️
Union Halls comes from the company Union who made overalls as well as other wearables. Also wearing Union Underwear.
I've heard and say alot of those words. I'm from Georgia and grew up using alot of these words and sayings.
Hey how ya'll doin? Another Ga peach here. I love this sight brings back so many memories.
Same here Dahlonega Georgia
@@emilylee5109 I have family in East Point, Dalton and Dallas, Georgia. I claim Ga as my second home. Beautiful state. We had more fun there. As soon as School was out we would go visit my grandmother and my cousins. Loved swimming in cold creeks in the summertime!!
I was born in Florida in 1952. My ancestors came from England, Ireland, and Scotland. They wound up in Southern Alabama and some wound up in Florida. I think many of those words came from over there. I remember MANY of the sayings. I heard Frog gigging many times. We grew up saying barefooted also. SO many more!
In South Texas I grew up and older folks would say-"well, he/she is a bit backwards" with an S..or "they got put together with a backwards piece". Meant they were a bit off, not really shy. So cool how there are different meanings. Love this channel and videos!!
I recognize several words, and use plenty, hear yall talk, or talk about language . Really enjoy .👩🌾
"booger" is also a verb that describes when a horse gets spooked. "The pony boogered and threw me off."
My dad was raised in Buncombe County North Carolina and my mom was raised in south eastern Kentucky. We say a lot of us words that I don’t even think are strange until I start paying attention to what I’m saying. I am proud of my heritage and I love Kentucky and North Carolina. My son says winder and yeller I think just to try to get on my nerves. But I still say yonder and youguns,barefooted. I just found your blog and really enjoy it.
Thank you Karen!
I’d love a live video!! My Dad is from KY so a lot of this makes sense to me, my dad said my husband run’t me because I got spoilt, I didn’t have chores or run to fetch tools etc... I love the ole words and purposely use them, I’m 63...
My friend had an uncle who when asked how he was coming along would say, oh I'm tendin' and lettin'. Meaning I'm tending to my business and letting yours alone.
@@gloriamann3413 I think I’m gonna start using that one!! I LOVE it!!
Make it your own my sister and enjoy!
Over the last several years I have fallen in love with that area of the country riding motorcycles at Deals Gap in N.C. and hiking on the Appalachian Trail out of Amicalola State Park in Georgia. The people in the south are such friendly colorful people and a lot of the language I've also heard in my family in Missouri. Love your family and how close you guys are and also your UA-cam pages...keep up the good work.
Frog Giggin' 'round here was done with a hand held line with a safety pin with red felt for bait floated it out on the pond ... Mom always said that frog legs was good eatin'
My dad was a frog gigger. I’ve eaten many a plate of frog legs in my life. Love hearing all this stuff.... some I’ve heard and my parents used a lot of them. I enjoy the explanations of them. You guys do a great job♥️
my 28 year old daughter told me 2 days ago she didn’t know what a divan was...I said-you know a couch! A divan! I didn’t realize I had never used that word around her...When did I stop using it?
My grandparents called it a Davenport...
I just realized I no longer say divan. I grew up saying it.
That’s hilarious!! I forget about these old terms that don’t seem like old terms to me! HAHA
A batten in the theatre is a long pole you hang backdrops, curtains, scrims, or lights. Have you ever heard “sigh goggling” or “whomppy jawed” for crooked?
Yes! Both great words for crooked 😀 Thanks for watching!
Cynthia Whitaker whompy jawed we used.
Thank you for sharing this! I miss my grandparents! We were definitely different in Indiana! 😂 I was asked several times, are you foreign? I was like huh, I was born here! 😂😂😂 my mom is from Kentucky and dads from Tennessee so I’m a hillbilly 😂😂😂 but yes, this was awesome, made me feel at home again! 😢 I would enjoy a live video but probably won’t chat much. I’m shy ☺️ love y’all, may you be blessed 😀🙏🏼❤️
That was so much fun! Thank you! I grew up in Chicago and have heard a surprising number of the terms you cited - and some have even been used within my family. I love linguistics and etymology. I am going to check out a couple of those books.