Lovely family and beautiful place that you live. I'm from Kentucky and married a Tn boy across the state line, lol.. I new what most of these meant. I'm homesick for the wood's and my grandma's home's. The food you cook is what I was raised on and cooked for my family.. Your daughter's are amazing girl's as is your hubby and granny. Mine are all gone now, sad. Enjoy it all, I believe that you are.. Best wish's from Cookeville, Tennessee. BTW, where are you located, I just started watching..
As a young man from a small WV town I never took pride in my heritage because I didn’t think there was anything prideful about it. But as I’ve gotten older, I see the strength and resourcefulness and wit of the mountain people who now I am proud to call my fellow men and women. Keep this channel going!!! Absolutely love it!! ❤️
Im from Roanoke, Virginia and the areas around abouts. Now living in South Florida since about 15 years old. When I was younger I was embarrassed about where I was from. Now that I'm in my 30's im very prideful about it. We are good people in appalachia and I love throwing random slang words into conversation just to get a laugh out of people in Florida. In my line of business I can make a lot of money during Christmas time in tip. I learned real quick to turn the accent up a notch around customers. They love it haha.
I am a 70 year old black female leaving in the south. I did a DNA test and have lots of white DNA. I listened to spoken words by the Appalachian people and some of those words I grew up with. I think it came from slaves from Africa being taught English and it was Scottish and Irish together language they were taught. I have both countries DNA. When I first listened to your area I said oh they sound a lot like my family lol. I'm glad I came across your channel. Thank you be bless.
Scottish Irish German Italian here - family from WV and OH once they came here. Hearing lots of familiarity here ❤ if you’ve never seen the movie Songcatcher, it talks about the music from Appalachia
For those unknowing Roman Catholic Irish were enslaved by an evil English king who wanted them off their Irish land so as to procure land for his bankers. The English king separated the Roman Catholic Irish women from their men/husband even. This English king sent the Roman Catholic Irish women to its Carribean island holdings forcing them to mate with sub-Saharan African slaves. There is far more egregious English slavery industry facts... but this is not the platform for "specifics". Know your Volke's history. Everyone.
My Moms side is from W North Carolina and I know a lot of the words but some I haven’t heard for many years since my Grandmother passed. Boy those girls have some deep accents. Glad to hear it. I sure miss hearing my Grandparents talking. My Grandma would always call someone no account. Lol. My Mom still can slip into her accent. Love it.
I’m from the Bluegrass area of Kentucky. Despite a heavy influence of the Midwest on my culture , our language is straight out of the hills. I’m proud to say I am familiar with 99 percent of the words and phrases in this test. My mamas peoples is out of West Virginia so that might be a heap of help for sure! Some words I didn’t hear was “ fixing” as in “ I’m fixing to leave y’all!”, and my favorite phrase that ever was, I remember Granny saying it like it was yesterday,God bless her, she’s been gone now, going on 20 years. She would say , “ Honey , fore yewings go, git the poke from the boot!” She had to walk across a creek to get to the house ,from where they parked it was a pretty good ways, so she was always needing help in fetching the groceries and what-knot! Thanks for the kind reminder!
Sounds like me when I parked my car in Boston. Most of the time I couldn’t find a spot in front of my apartment, so I had to drive to the next neighborhood to find a spot. And then hope I could remember where I parked since I didn’t use the car during the week while I was a grad school.
Here in the northeast, we do use fisticuffs, hunker down, ruination, and gall, although fisticuffs has a bit of a newsies'-era tinge to it, and the meaning of gall is slightly different. We might say "mired," but only rarely, and probably not "mired up." "Let on" seems to have drifted ever so slightly semantically from "let someone know the truth of a condition" to "pretend some other condition." We might use it in the latter way too here, I guess, but in a smaller ratio. It's interesting to see them have opposite takes on which way yon way is. Just kidding!
@@danielbriggs991 I have met a few people from Pennsylvania who used the word 'yet' instead of 'still' which I found extremely interesting and somewhat confusing. For example, are you at work yet? Of course I am, it's 11 am and I work 6am to 4 pm. Did you mean are you STILL at work? Or is it snowing yet? Of course it is, it has been snowing for hours and you have commented on the snow already. Did you mean is it snowing STILL? Anyway, would you like to comment on this phenomenon?
I’m from Avoca in Ireland 🇮🇪 and so many of these words are part of our vocabulary. Update 23/07/23 Speaking to my nanny(grandmother 94) some of granddads side of the family emigrated to Kentucky to work in the coal mines due to there experience of mining in the Avoca copper mines here in Wicklow Ireland. So any Moores from Kentucky we are probably related 😂
Yup a lot of Scottish and Irish immigrant workers , busted their asses and we’re not given what they were promised , so they took to the mountains and woods and made a life for themselves there.
Yes!!!! Many Irish settled in the mountains my Grandmother's maiden name was Doyle she would harse instead of how we say horse. If you look also at mountain dancing..clogging it looks similar to Irish folk dancing much love from USA
@@brucelee5576 the terrain was what they were use too while others didn't care to till the rocky soil to plant the Irish and Scottish had been doing it for centuries in there land. The area appealed to them that's why they chose to go there. My family is from the Shenandoah valley Irish Scottish English and German decendants. I choose not to live there but have a ingrained respect and love of it.
Thank you, very entertaining. My parents were Highland Scots, and a lot of the words you used are very similar to their speech and consequentially my own . I was born in Australia and similar words can often be heard in Australian slang. Thanks again. John.
Im from the Highlands and if I ever see any Australian programmes I hear a lot of words/phrases that were used when I was a child. We have a more homogeneous language now thanks to tv and internet so young people are losing their individuality.
Yeah, I remember when I got stationed in Britain, how interesting it was to hear that alot of the words they used, my grandparents used!! We use to call the way my grandparents talked, "old English"---I never knew how literal that was!!!
I’m a Ulster Scot from Northern Ireland, I have no problems with any of it, occasionally their accent is a little difficult but part apart from that , its all very familiar.
I'm from southern Ireland and I noticed that Katie used in her normal conversation there the phrase "More Ya". We use it here in English but it's from the Irish "Mar Ea" (Mar ya) meaning "As if" eg "you cleaned the car Mar Ya"/ "you act as if you cleaned the car". The first big migration from Ireland to America was by the Scots-Irish from Ulster who were mostly Protestants. Many settled in the Appalacians. We can thank them for the great American "Country" music tradition. The next big migration was later and was mostly by Catholics from all over Ireland who settled in some of the big cities such as NY and Boston. The Scots-Irish and the Irish have had a big influence on American culture. This was a Hell-of-a Show. Thank ya, Ladies.
That's because Appalachia was originally settled by Ulster Scotts sent over hear to wrestle the wilderness away from the Indians. King George was a bad person, but he knew who to send for fighting....The The Scots-Irish. America still depends upon our region for the lions share of military leaders.
AS A KID DIDN'T NOTICE THAT THE LANGUAGE WAS DIFFERENT TO I WENT AND VISITED MY COUSINS IN MICHIGAN. AT THE END OF A SENTENCE MOST THE TIME THEY SAY EH? I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT MEANT. COME TO FIND OUT THEY DIDN'T EITHER. JUST SOMETHING THEY SAID BECAUSE THEY WERE CLOSE TO CANADA, EH.?🤨🤔🙄🥴
Yeah, I remember when I got stationed in Britain, how interesting it was to hear that alot of the words they used, my grandparents used!! We use to call the way my grandparents talked, "old English"---I never knew how literal that was!!!
Yes y'all hit it on the head as a lot of people in Appalachia are of Scotch- Irish descent! The Appalachian dialect is closest to a old Scottish dialect from back in the day.
My family was in Appalachia before the American Revolution and then emigrated to Oregon Territory in 1852. The language, customs, superstitions, and recipes have survived and come down to us 7 or more generations later. Amazingly, I knew quite a few of these words. Thank you for posting this!
My great grandmother ,born in 1909 on farm on a mountain in north east Alabama was my baby sister.i am 51 now and live in a different part of applachia now but hearing you say these words and phrases brings back all those memories.and yes I still use some of them and so does my kids and grandkids..thank you for trying to preserve our heritage...
A lot of these words have roots in Gaelic and the Scottish settlers that settled all along that area and there verbage from their native tongue over to English and has this morphed into the unique and beautiful language that is Appalachian 🤗🙏🏻🥰😇
@@robertwilson2007 Yes, I find that to be true. I have travelled most of the USA, and whenever I visited KY, we spoke the same, same cadence, and used many of the same words not used in others parts of USA. Got to be the Scottish, Irish, Cherokee roots!
@@camjam6015 "Mountain Talk" is very similar to Appalachian but the emphasis is different. All came from Irish and Scottish but the further north you go the more German and Moravian has influence.
I live in Spartanburg county, South Carolina and I have heard and used a good bit of these words and sayings, pretty much, on a regular basis. I think it's just peachy that you're keeping the language alive and educating those who have never heard it, or didn't understand it if they had heard it. Thank you, and Blessings to you and your family !!!
I was just about to comment this exact same thing! I’ve heard & used so many of these words/phrases throughout my life. I’m in Spartanburg county as well, Greer to be exact. Small world!
all words are the same just twested around from different teaches the way they want us to say they all mean the same if a person can under stand go to our own city coladge over yander in gastonia nc
I also live in Spartanburg, SC. Grew up in Simpsonville. On Hwy 14 a couple of miles off Woodruff Rd. ( I remember it when it was all country). I’ve heard and used all these words except the one for tantrum. As an adult I learned some of the words we used as children were Geechee/Gullah too.
This is crazy it really is a small world I grew up in TR SC and now live in Lyman South Carolina. I wish we could bring back the good old days when the upstate wasn’t infected with the subdivision disease. It’s so cool to see how many of these words I actually use and know. 😀
@@adrianogomes7111 YES !! I Agree about the subdivision illness. I grew up in the corner of Hwy 14 and Maxwell Drive. We had fields and woods for miles to play in. Now if you Google search you’ll see it’s all houses right on top of each other. It’s a higher crime area too. It’s the same where I live now. Use to be all country. Now it’s grocery stores and fast food restaurants. Multiple schools. I hate it.
It is amazing to hear these words from the Appalachia natives. I live in the Scottish Borders and a lot of this terminology, slightly different but still has the same meaning. Like the word - baite - still means to eat here in the borders. Each town in the borders has its own accent and dialect. Yet there are words they use to explain the same thing. Thank you for the lesson in Appalachia dialect. It’s interesting to see how languages have evolved and the roots of where they have come from.
Isn't it fascinating? My family on both sides are from the Blueridge mountains Shenandoah Valley of Virginia it is a beautiful area. My ancestors were Scottish Irish mostly, English and German. If you look at mountain dancing they call it clogging to me it looks similar like Irish folk dancing or Highland Dance. We are all connected my friend. Be safe in these times
I would love it if you would make a list of all the words she mentions that you have in Scottish. (I realize scots speak english, but you know what I mean.)
I am plumb terrified that I understood near everything you said. My grandparents, that I grew up next door to, were from Blue Ridge and Blairsville, GA.
@@marktazz4521 If you really can't hear an accent, you've never left the Blugrass state then man. It's all relative to ones own environment but bro, the accents are thick. I'm from Cincinnati but live in Belgium and I can immediately pick up on mid-west/Appalachia accents being that I grew up for 30-years in it. People here in Belgium even say I have an accent. Mid-west and Appalachian accents have a style on their own (even within America) and if you've never really been out of ol' Harlin Kentucky, I'm sure you can't hear it then...
@@ahart12311 Folks in Harlan County, lord, they knew that we was poor.... They always called my daddy Preacher Dan~~ ...But dad he weren't no preacher, leastways I don't recollect... Papa made his livin' off the land...
My grandfather spoke an Appalachian dialect, and with a strong accent, and he used a lot of these words (plus a lot of uncommon ones.) It could be hard to understand him at times, though I understood him pretty well since I grew up hearing it from him. He learned it from his dad, who was originally from a little insulated pocket community in the Smokies. He left when he married a woman from the Cherokee reservation and moved south. I did a living history project before my grandparents died. I interviewed them when I was in college, and I’m so glad I have those stories now, as well as a record of Papaw’s dialect. My dad and aunts don’t speak that way, and their accents were much more moderate, so it’s really interesting (and a little sad) how quickly we lose regional dialects and accents. I barely have a southern accent anymore after living abroad for the past 10+ years, and sometimes I miss hearing it.
I've got the worst/best drawl of my whole blamed family and we're all natives. I was in the Army with 2 Joyzee guys and got so I could mock them to a tee. I still do it to the Yankee friends around here but always revert back to my hillbilly roots.
You should send a copy to the Museum of Appalachia in Norris TN. They're affiliated with the Smithsonian Institute. I'm sure they would appreciate it and it would be available for researchers! 😀
It's great you said that bout your grandparents my great grandparents were from way down in Florida but they had the best accent but my papa didn't have it as hard as them and my mom ain't got one at all or at least it's very modern I moved to Appalachia PA and went to visit my mom and granny and they say I done lost all my accent but up here the PA folk say it's a southern accent lol I said to my Ma I'm a man with out a country but if I move back to North Carolina and maybe my accent will fit right in
Thank You for the terminology lesson of my Scott-Irish lineage. It explains how this language of around 10 generations from North Carolina through Tennessee and ending up in Western Oklahoma with my relatives.
I am Canadian from a city with strong British influence - I definitely recognize some of the individual words. It is fascinating what words have stuck, or only modestly evolved. The phrases are more challenging.
Your daughters are so lovely & their smiles are infectious! You must be so proud of them! Thank you so much for sharing these bits of Appalachia vocabulary with us!
My dad was from eastern Kentucky. We’d visit every 2 years and our cousins spoke with this accent and language. Great people and incredible stories they told about growing up in the 20s and 30s.
Appalachia is difficult terrain so the settlers there remained a great deal more cut off from other places. As a result the culture from the 'old world' was reatined more than elsewhere in USA
I'm a 79 year old woman from Nova Scotia Canada, and grew up in the country. I knew and grew up with about 90% of the words. I still use some of them . Actually we had a skiff of snow this morning. I enjoy your tests.
I'm amazed how much Appalachia language I was raised with in Northern South Carolina. Apparently my Scots-Irish heritage came from western North Carolina and moved into South Carolina. I love this and learning more about our heritage.
My families are from Louisiana/ Mississippi by way of S. Carolina in the 1800’s. I was born and raised in Texas. So many of these words I grew up with.
Appalachian dialect is the base for most Southern blue collar folks. Usually in the rhotic R that really gets on my nerves with folks who are playing someone from the South they fail to place R's consistently. You go hard R or just go full plantation Belle (which is rare outside of older ladies in my neck of deeeeeep southeast Alabama)
@@THEBIGFISH_55no one drops their r’s under like 70 in the south anymore. Being from Va, the Virginia accent was non rhotic but no one under senior citizen age drops their R anymore idk why
As a British lady almost 60 years old I recognised pretty much all the words which I was really happy about. And of course, the accent for me made it a little harder, I figured I got about half. 😆😆😆 very cool video.
Interesting that you say that. Because it’s my understanding that the southern dialect and accent has its roots in and is very similar to British. That it was a sophisticated accent as well.
@@nancyj5490 I'm from Boston and I notice that our accents are very similar to the english/british dialict. Appalachian just have their own slang words which confuse a lot. That's my thoughts.
My great-grandparents moved from Ireland to Tennessee. I'm proud to say I knew most of these. I'm glad there are people keeping Appalachian history/language alive!
Before of after 1840? I have Scotch-Irish family from Ulster than arrived in the early 1700's and Irish family that came after 1840. Also a scattering of Highland Scots and English from the south. Has to be a Welshman in the woodpile somewhere too. LOL Also late arriving Germans 1880's.
I’m a born in California and lived all my life of 67 years in cali, but my folks and ancestors are from appalatchia, and hearing ya’ll speak with such a beautiful accent brings back great memories thank you so much.
I’m Southern from Louisiana and this is the vocabulary I grew up on. The two young ladies are absolutely beautiful. I got such a kick out of their answers.
My dad's & my hubby's families are from southern Alabama & Florida panhandle, and I got about 90% right. My mom was born in the South but her momma is midwestern and I didn't realize how much that effected my accent even today.
My first Kentucky word I learned was “flarebit.” (flower bed) I’m a native Californian and my Mom transplanted to Waco, Kentucky 28 years ago. Thank you for keeping Appalachian culture alive. Wonderful daughters you have.
The words are delightful. I grew up with so many of these words or sayings. My parents lived in Unaka, which was "down below" Murphy, N.C. Right after WWII my father married my mother and they moved to middle Georgia, but they always went "up home" every Decoration Day, which was not celebrated where they now lived. Whenever I spent time up home and came back, my husband told me I talked funny, not only because of the vocabulary but also the pronunciation. Anyway, thank you for your posts on Appalachia.
It’s lovely how many of these words have become the vernacular in America. Both of my parents are from Philadelphia and New York and they used many of these regularly. Now I know where they came from. Thank you!
My grandparents were from Green Cove VA and this is how they spoke. How my dad spoke. When we had a massive family reunion in the 1970s, people came from all the hollers all around the area. There were hundreds, and they all spoke like this. I've never seen anything like it since
I grew up just off of the Blueridge Mountains in Southwest Virginia. Most of these words I heard throughout my younger days and adolescence. It’s fun to hear them again, it’s like being at home!
My granny and Papaw were from Kentucky originally but moved to Ohio sometime after getting married so I grew up hearing some of these. I sure miss hearing them talk. My papaw died when I was in high school. I took it pretty hard because we were very close. Thank you for bringing up some happy memories of them.
My Dad's family is from Appalachia Tennessee. Once we were visiting my Aunt and she asked my Dad if he would buy her some dope. He asked her what she said and she told him the same thing. It was finally explained that she was asking him to go to the store and buy her some coca cola. I laughed so hard when we found out what she really wanted. My Dad took her to the store and bought her some dope. 😂 I've heard some of these other words from my relatives and sometimes even from my Dad. Thanks for sharing.
As a northern Canadian 🇨🇦 (1,000 miles north of Toronto) I was surprised to hear many of the Appalachian words are identical to ours & have the same meaning in our vocabulary… Cheers from HudsonBay Area 🇨🇦
I'd like to someday visit your Area, it must be beautiful there and it sounds like our vocabularies are similar enough I'd feel welcome there- I'm sure my Scots-irish heritage is evident in my speech.
Why? I’m never going to celebrate ignorance in any shape or form. If African Americans speak gibberish or Caucasian Appalachians speak gibberish, it’s still gibberish.
My grandmother used a lot of those words. Always thought it was interesting how many Appalachian words and phrases have remained unchanged from old Scots-Irish
@@capnkirk933 - That we are. I can trace part of my roots to Scotland, when my ancestors arrived in the 1800's, as well as the Cherokee Nation. I have an ancestor that was lost on The Trail of Tears. No record of her after a certain date.
I have scots-Irish Heritage too... that must be why I knew so many words. My great-grandparents and grandparents said most these words. I wasn’t understanding why I knew so many..and use so many. I’m just a small town, bare foot Missourian. I thought everyone said ov’r younder. Lol. I can go back many generations to just right here. Thank you for this comment. It was nice to learn this is where these words stem from.
I love this. I passed the test. My mom and dad were from KY. I was born in Ohio , but this was the usual talk at our house. Mom and dad are gone and this was such a pleasure to hear. Thank you for sharing. The girls are beautiful and so good natured. It's nice to see these words won't die out.
Y'all are so wonderful! I am 65 years old, and was raised in Atlanta by Mississippi parents, but my family came over to these shores way back before the American Revolution, settling mostly in Virginia. I was pleased to know many (possibly most!) of the terms you tested the girls with. I remember my maternal grandmother telling me that growing up they all referred to Coke as dope, so that one I definitely knew! This was my first visit to your page, and I will be back. I love hearing about ancient words and phrases, especially of those in the Southern part of America. God bless you all!
I’m a Northeast Tennessean, and my Daddy spoke these Appalachian words! My Mama spoke proper English, and all but a couple of their eight children spoke more like Mama. We had a bit of trouble understanding Daddy, a lot! Humorously giggles a lot, though! 🙏❤️
Southern Illinois here - like 30 minutes from Kentucky - my maternal grandma used a bunch of these words. My uncle still does, as do the rest of that side. My family came thru Appalachia (on both sides) and ended up here in the coal mines and farming. My Mom always used proper English though. It’s fun to hear this.
We love these “tests” :) We’re a family of writers and we love learning new words, but Appalachian dialects are so interesting because so many are Elizabethan English. My family is from Appalachia, long gone now since WW2 and the migration to steel jobs, but it remains part of who we are. I still tell the stories to my son. Thanks for sharing this with us. It provides a connection to a place we need never forget as long as someone keeps it alive.
I am English (nearer 70 than 65) and am amzed that I knew around 80% of the meanings, though the younger you are here, the more the words aren't used. Could you do superstitions please?
Fascinating!!!! I was born in Jamaica and a lot of the words sounded very similar to some of our words. Of course accents (yours and ours)makes them sound a bit different but the meaning were the same and these are word that were/are used mostly by the older folks. Amazing! The more I learn about other cultures the more I realize this is a small world in many ways. A lot of your food also reminds me of food from our country/rural area. Wow!! Thank you for sharing.
@@emilinebelle7811 yes it is. Jamaican language is patois, a broken English and Appalachian language is broken English. You have more similarities then you could imagine.
@@emilinebelle7811 Irish taught slaves English in Jamaica. Irish have commented that some words here are familiar, so it makes sense that the Jamaican DIALECT of Patois would be reminiscent of Appalachian English.
Jamaicans didn't come direct from Africa, but arrived after first coming to the USA. I imagine the vocabulary will have travelled with them when they settled in Jamaica. The words are largely inherited from older Celtic peoples who settled there too. Much the same way that Aussie slang is mostly just inherited from and evolved from cockney English. The language spoken by the common people, the working class and criminal class. It is seen as Aussie slang today but is easily traced back to Victorian England.
Half of my ancestors moved from Scotland to Appalachia a long time ago and so much of my family talks like this! I love that you’re archiving this for future generations
I was born and raised in East Tennessee but haven’t been home in over twenty years, listening to this really brought back wonderful memories, thank you so much for sharing.
I absolutely LOVE this. I’m an RN in SW Virginia. I heard sayings like this when I was young from my grandparents and family who lived “ in the country.” Today, I thank my Mom who has “ passed on”for enriching my life. I can talk with all types of people, but my heart goes with every patient that uses these phrases. They “light up . “
I’m from central Kentucky, and I didn’t realize how many of these words and phrases were Appalachian! I thought everybody used them! 😂 A few of them I haven’t heard anybody use since I was a kid and hearing them again really tickled me! Several of them I use everyday and didn’t realize they were regional. I love learning about languages, especially about regional dialects and accents, so thank you for this, I really enjoyed it!
I love how cute these girls talk. I’m from West Virginia but I have lived on the west coast for longer. I love the accent and happy when mine returns occasionally. “Some of this just ain’t true”. So cute
I was born and raised in California, my grandparents were from East Tennessee and west NC, my Popo kept his accent till he passed. I have the normal California non accent. I moved to the south for a while, people couldn’t understand me. So different the vernacular is from region to region. From being razed with my grandparents, I knew a lot of these words.
I'm from the Missouri Ozarks and it's fascinating how much of our culture and regional dialect is descended from the Appalachians. I would say that I knew about 80% of these terms.
Yes. I lived in the Ozarks for several years in the '80's and heard a lot of these words and phrases used, especially by the older generation. One word I remember that I have not heard of before or since was "donnick" used to mean a large rock.
I watched an interesting video once about American accents and a lot of the westward expansion from the south came out of North Carolina for some reason I can’t remember. But you could directly see how the Appalachian dialect spread west from there.
I was raised in Kansas and the Bronx but my grandmother and grest aunt were from north Missouri and this is the vocabulary i carried with me wherever I went. My sons favorite saying is "crazier than a hoot owl "
I am so glad I came across this channel! My Granny (1889-1987) from Tennessee talked this way. She would call a stick a "stob", and a twig a "tooth brush" for her snuff "backer" When it was time to go to bed, She would say " Hit the Tick" LOL. Our family still uses these words everyday.
My dad was the first in whole family to go to college......he said he struggled and worked so hard to command standard (unaccented) English, so he would fit in. He became aschool administrator. On the other hand, I loved the way my grandparents and cousins talked, and grew up emulating vocabulary and accents😊
Born and raised in North Alabama 65 years and got almost all of these. The girls are simply adorable. Y'all sound like home to me. Appalachia has such an influence across the country. German, English, Irish here. Thanks for the great work.
This was so interesting learning about your language and culture! Thank you for sharing! Just a request, can you please put the word on the screen as you say it, or include a list in the description, so we can see how it's spelt? Especially for people from across the world who might have a harder time understanding your accent but would love to learn more! Thank you!
A lot of the words used here aren't A word, but rather a compound word. 'You'uns" for instance, is "You Ones". It's something you'll hear fairly often in the eastern end of where I live. Other words, like "The Epizooties" is a bastardization of an actual scientific word or term. In this case, an epizoological outbreak... an epidemic among animals. And words like "bate"... I have no idea. Just another form and spelling for "bait", maybe? "Hollar" of course, probably comes from a land feature you have to yell across to be heard. The point I'm trying to make is the spelling itself may take quite a bit of explaining to make sense. lol I've lost count of how many words or terms I used to hear and understand every day, but no longer do because the people they made sense to are now long gone. ...and also due to the people now moving into the area having no history with them at all. It's a sad thing, I guess, but language really does change and evolve... even within the few years I've been alive. ( 60 and counting, so far. )
@@christophersmith8316 - A hollow also tends to be dead ended, usually having only one way in or out. That doesn't change the fact that people on one side of it have to "holler" at people on the other. Also, do you know what a "field holler" is? It's a kind of song or chant that laborers used to do as they worked the fields, to help pass the time. Sailors on ship used to do something similar when pulling lines, to help stay in sync with each other as they hauled. Railway workers did the same as they laid the train tracks. One way or the other, "Holler" and "yell", are synonymous here in the south. Here, let these ladies try to explain it to ya: ua-cam.com/video/94h2L9oBOHM/v-deo.html
I'm from southern West Virginia I knew almost everyone of these..but I've lived in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee so my dialect has changed so much over the years I sound more "southern belle" now but I know my roots. I feel it's a dieing language..good for you keeping it alive.
My mother from strawberry plains, Tennessee said a majority of this vocabulary, I never associated it with being from Appalachia I just thought it was just way people talked. My mom passed away 10 years ago and it’s good to hear these words again. Some really good memories thank you! Especially loveed hearing “I’m gonna get me a dope” she said that all the time.
I love how down to earth and blunt southern girls are lol. These two are the cutest. Always been a sucker for a woman with a southern accent anyway. 😍❤✌
As a guy from England that lives in the Midwest, it's crazy to me how many words I've heard used before in the UK. Also, you guys have thee best accent in the entire world.
I'm from East Midlands and I'm the same - so many words are the kind of thing we'd say, particularly in th North, West Country and East Anglia where the culture hasn't been taken over by the South counties. I'd be curious to know if Appalachians use words like jitty (alleyway), croggie (give a lift on a bicycle), rammel (trash), larrup (slap or add thickly), snided (busy, congested), mardy (sulky)?
@@avaggdu1 The only one I'm familiar with is larrup, but we would say larrupin to mean something is really good to eat 😀 Thank you so much for sharing the words. Hopefully if someone else is familiar with their usage here they'll chime in 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia Aye, 'appen. I asked me mam what's fer dinnah an she said "shit wi' sugar on!" so I asked me nan to larrup some jam onna cob but nana 'ad a cob on an she gave me a larrupin' instead! Ta-ra, mi duck! (Yes, quite. I enquired of Mother Dearest what repast she had prepared for our evening meal but she declined, so I asked Grandmother for thick jam on some bread but she was in a bad mood and gave me a heavy-handed slap for my trouble! Farewell, my friend!) 😄 I can see how larrupin' something like jam, whipped cream or honey on anything would be good to eat so that makes sense.
A lot of phrases that I couldn't have come up with but knew right away. My mom might have left Hazard Kentucky, but Hazard never left her. I love listening to you voice. I hear echoes of my aunties & grandmothers.
Boy, a lot of the words left me bumfuzzled. What a great channel. Most of my family had roots in the Appalachians and I heard these words in context at some point over my 65 years. I love using them in conversation from time to time just to see folks expressions... Priceless! Keep up the good work!
My 5th-grade son had a substitute teacher for a couple of weeks, she was originally from Appalachia. She was full of colorful expressions like "Ah c'd do this 'til the cows come home" and "you sit real tight now, I'll be back in two shakes of a lamb's tail." The kids really enjoyed her time there.
Growing up in the Pittsburgh area my Mom always told me that if the US failed we would be the Appalachians and I love seeing you bring our often hidden culture to light
My mother's family is from rural Georgia, she's half native (t'saligi) and white. And i grew up hearing almost all of those words from them, i just didn't remember all of the meanings for them. Some of the meanings i do remember though! This video is giving me serious nostalgia. The accent is just like theirs and visiting the south has always been so pleasant,southern foods,hospitality,cultures and wilflife just can't be beat for me. It's good for the soul.
This is fascinating. My Scot-Irish ancestors (and my spouse's too) came from Appalachia generations ago yet these words are still in our vocabulary. As we age our Appalachia accent gains strength. Wash-> Warsh
I knew most of those, Tip, but then I should considering how old I am! The girls are funny, I love how free spirited they are! You and the Deerhunter did a good job raising them!
So nice to hear that accent and those phrases again. Miss Appalachia. Great job raising those young ladies! They respect each other, their mama, and themselves. Thanks for this video.
I'm from South western Virginia and got about 70% of these right. Some I didn't know and others I only hear our old timers use. Thanks for keeping our history and culture alive because I feel like our younger generation have lost a lot of our linguistic heritage.
I blame us always being told that it was a disadvantage and that we were dumb by talking that way. I'm glad I have grown to be appreciative for my Appalachian heritage and accent. It unfortantly took me leaving home to gain it. Now I'm always missing the mountains.
My mother grew up in south Georgia, and her mother was from the mountains of Tennessee, but I was born and raised in Wisconsin. I didn't expect to do well on this test, but found that I knew the meaning and usage of one after another of these words. Thanks for such a great video! The girls are adorable.
Every time I watch you I am reminded of my family. I had forgotten how deeply my family was rooted in those mountains and trees. Hearing these words and realizing they are from Appalachia is a nostalgic comfort and an educational experience. I feel like I’m visiting with my grandparents and hearing their words. 💜
"I'm gonna lay off drinking cuz it's wrong" - and I'm rolling. This video is a gem! I'm a Yankee and understand about 10% of this but am 100% entertained! Good stuff! 👍 (in my Yankee defense, Smokey and the Bandit is the greatest movie of all time, so I ain't all bad 😀 )
Yeah, no. There were some pretty big assholes up in NY, but these folks take the cake. If you're not from here, or looking to buy meth, I'd keep driving.
@@ilovebutterstuff dang man. Won’t you chill? You seem upset. These folks seem as nice of people you’d ever meet. I don’t understand how you could be so ugly to them on their page. They’re not saying anything remotely offensive to anyone. Regardless, I will say a prayer for you and I do hope God supernaturally blesses you my friend. Everything’s gonna be alright.
@@rallenbronc alas he is saying the truth. Not about ALL of the people, but sadly a lot of them nowadays. Can't argue with truth. I will say a prayer that you open your mind and learn to listen instead of turn to ignorance when you don't like what you're hearing.
My family has been in southeastern Ohio and West Virginia since the early 1800’s. I’d heard a lot of these words growing up and use some of them myself. I had no idea that most of these were Appalachian. I had always grown up trying to hide the part of myself that I thought was different or “country” but now I know that that part was my Appalachian ancestors and I’m proud to raise my kids to be proud of their Appalachian heritage.
I'm almost 70; the youngest child of older parents. Although Midwestern, I knew several of your Appalachian words. However, our definition of a blatherskite was someone who seldom stopped talking. Several words that were common in my childhood have vanished. Example #1: Dun (or dunning letter) is a bill/invoice that arrives through the mail. Example #2: Dast (or dastn't) is whether it's okay to do something. i.e. "He dastn't come around here asking to borrow money". Example #3: Shitepoke is just a slur you call someone when you want to insult them. I love language and words, but they are always evolving.
??? Dun? We use it all the time in Alabama. "Got 2 duns and a vote flyer". Dast is simply a contraction that is very useful for short cut English. Does not dare..what a boring bit to put into a sentence! Shitepoke is early English. Today's children say it much more basic...a sh** bag. The etymology of these words are fascinating!
@@DodiTov Thanks, that's fun to hear! So few people I meet know what those words mean. I always suspected dast was a shortened form of darest, and dastn't of darest not.
My Dad used that word "Dastn't" and it had the same meaning. "Deef" was another word common in his speech which meant to be deaf. I too loved to hear what I thought were zingers (mistakes in speech).
Why am I now in love with your girls? Natural beauty in both of them, their smiles and their personalities are golden. Not to mention their cute accents.
Thank you for taking the time to keep Appalachian culture, and by proxy our history, alive. It is amazing to see how many of the same words are found here in West Virginia as well.
I was born in CA and left there in '48 at the age of 10. We relocated in AR at the bottom of the Ozarks. Needless to say, I had to learn a new language. I remember my neighbors speaking a little strange. At the time I was unaware of the Appalachia language. Later in life I discovered the language of the Ozarks was just a branch of the Appalachian language. I had to learn the language just to know what was being said around me. Now in my mid-eighties your posting is music to my ears, Thank you and your beautiful daughters.
When i young and was full of meaness, Mom would say "wait til your dad gits home and heel get the strap out" or worse when i had to cut the switch myself. But it absolutely worked and i remembered not to mess around. Also when it was over no more was said about it and you went on with your chores. Fly the straight and narrow was another saying used. Great parents from the olden days from Ozarks area in Missouri & big thicket area in southern Texas with prior connection to Kentucky and Tennessee. Thank You for the great video's and God Bless America.
I loved this! East Tennessee born an raised! My nickname growing up was meannees my daddy always called that! Seeing your girls not knowing that word at first was hilarious! They seem like such sweet lovely young ladies, I Love your videos!
I grew up in a predominantly Irish family in the Piedmont region of VA. Almost all these words were uttered from my Grandparents and other family members from their generation. I used to try not to use these phrases because people automatically assumed I was dumb or uncultured. I’ve traveled around the world and heard so many different words and phrases that I honestly couldn’t possibly understand or remember them all. The ways in which we communicate are astounding to me! I Love It!!
I sure do love to hear you all talk! I’m east coast though but we still sound the same in so many ways. I transplanted via marriage and will forever be homesick. One of my favorite things when I get to go home is to sit and listen to people talk. I am delighted to hear the the accents and phrases I no longer get to hear often! Thank you all for sharing a little piece of home!🥰
Aww 🥰. I am from East Tennessee but have lived in South Florida for 25 years . It was so fun to come across you girls , you all are adorable 🥰!!! My grandmother lived to be 104 , born in 1896 and passed away in 2000 needless to say we heard most if not all those words lol . Thank you for reminding me of some of them. Much Love , Lisa
My dad's father was a hillbilly from Avery County NC and I was amazed by how many of these terms I know. For nearly 20 years we had family reunions, usually staying in Boone but visiting family all over the area. I guess now I know why my dad's side of the family talks like this. This was really fun to watch.
When I was real little, like 8 years old or so, in the late 80's, I moved to North Carolina from florida. I was soooo confused for a few years!!! Everytime somebody would say something to me, i always responded with a "huh?" People either thought ibwas dead or dumb!!
@@masterwoods6586 yeah that's funny,I went from Ky to Ala and I couldn't understand half of it. Seems like it came out so fast and the words may have been pronounced similar but meant the same. Fixing to go,which is kinda weird to me but Ala say fittin to go. I noticed quite a few like that but I've forgotten. I helped set all the robots,presses conveyors and all it takes to make a car. I was a union milwright for years and have helped to set up car manufacturers all over the place. I miss that job. Too old these days. God bless.
@@gloriaanderson7424 it's really a terrible history. The history of mining in general is a brutal one. My great grandmother was from WV and I'm so glad the holler she was from was not destroyed by strip mining. I still have some lovely poems she wrote about where she grew up and the natural beauty of the mountains. She only had a 4th grade education but a talent with words.
Im from Lafollette Tennessee and im right proud of us! Thank you good ma'am! ❤❤❤ Im part Cherokee, part Irish, and part Hawaiian. My papaw was Cherokee and my mamaw was irish on my momma side and my daddy is Hawaiian. Im Appalachia proud as the day is long! ❤❤❤
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Where are tall from love to here fellow dialect like honey to the ears... I born and raised near Boone nc
We say all these words on the East Coast. Maybe, because the Irish Scotch immigrants first came to Ma. then migrated to your parts.
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Me too. Outer Banks NC. I garged on sallet fo days straight and had a bait. We got brogue dialect oot har.
awesome video i was about 50/50 till the last few minutes and im not from Appalachia im from mid eastern ga over by the carolina line
Lovely family and beautiful place that you live. I'm from Kentucky and married a Tn boy across the state line, lol.. I new what most of these meant. I'm homesick for the wood's and my grandma's home's. The food you cook is what I was raised on and cooked for my family.. Your daughter's are amazing girl's as is your hubby and granny. Mine are all gone now, sad. Enjoy it all, I believe that you are.. Best wish's from Cookeville, Tennessee. BTW, where are you located, I just started watching..
As a young man from a small WV town I never took pride in my heritage because I didn’t think there was anything prideful about it. But as I’ve gotten older, I see the strength and resourcefulness and wit of the mountain people who now I am proud to call my fellow men and women. Keep this channel going!!! Absolutely love it!! ❤️
Thank you Matthew 😀
You’re from the the town where Volkswagens are made?! Wow!! 🚗🚐🚙🚌
I'm a Kentucky Girl!!! I agree with you....we may not have had a lot growing up, but we know how to survive.
@@heli-crewhgs5285 No, it's where they make Wagenvolks.
Im from Roanoke, Virginia and the areas around abouts. Now living in South Florida since about 15 years old. When I was younger I was embarrassed about where I was from. Now that I'm in my 30's im very prideful about it. We are good people in appalachia and I love throwing random slang words into conversation just to get a laugh out of people in Florida. In my line of business I can make a lot of money during Christmas time in tip. I learned real quick to turn the accent up a notch around customers. They love it haha.
I am a 70 year old black female leaving in the south. I did a DNA test and have lots of white DNA. I listened to spoken words by the Appalachian people and some of those words I grew up with. I think it came from slaves from Africa being taught English and it was Scottish and Irish together language they were taught. I have both countries DNA. When I first listened to your area I said oh they sound a lot like my family lol. I'm glad I came across your channel. Thank you be bless.
So glad you enjoy our videos and that we remind you of family 😀 Thank you for watching!!
Appreciate you sharing your story, thank you!
Scottish Irish German Italian here - family from WV and OH once they came here. Hearing lots of familiarity here ❤ if you’ve never seen the movie Songcatcher, it talks about the music from Appalachia
For those unknowing Roman Catholic Irish were enslaved by an evil English king who wanted them off their Irish land so as to procure land for his bankers.
The English king separated the Roman Catholic Irish women from their men/husband even. This English king sent the Roman Catholic Irish women to its Carribean island holdings forcing them to mate with sub-Saharan African slaves.
There is far more egregious English slavery industry facts... but this is not the platform for "specifics".
Know your Volke's history. Everyone.
My Moms side is from W North Carolina and I know a lot of the words but some I haven’t heard for many years since my Grandmother passed. Boy those girls have some deep accents. Glad to hear it. I sure miss hearing my Grandparents talking. My Grandma would always call someone no account. Lol. My Mom still can slip into her accent. Love it.
I’m from the Bluegrass area of Kentucky. Despite a heavy influence of the Midwest on my culture , our language is straight out of the hills. I’m proud to say I am familiar with 99 percent of the words and phrases in this test. My mamas peoples is out of West Virginia so that might be a heap of help for sure! Some words I didn’t hear was “ fixing” as in “ I’m fixing to leave y’all!”, and my favorite phrase that ever was, I remember Granny saying it like it was yesterday,God bless her, she’s been gone now, going on 20 years. She would say , “ Honey , fore yewings go, git the poke from the boot!” She had to walk across a creek to get to the house ,from where they parked it was a pretty good ways, so she was always needing help in fetching the groceries and what-knot! Thanks for the kind reminder!
lol try this one,,, it was 1 of my moms favorites, I'm fixin to beat ya like a barried mule lol I loved that 1
My grandma would say, a fur piece and a right smart. When someone was bragging, she would say, "Don't they think their high in the papers."
The Bluegrass of Kentucky is Upland South, a relative of the Appalachian South in Eastern Kentucky. It isn't Midwestern.
@@cumbuckaroo9966, well ain’t you high up in the papers!
Sounds like me when I parked my car in Boston. Most of the time I couldn’t find a spot in front of my apartment, so I had to drive to the next neighborhood to find a spot. And then hope I could remember where I parked since I didn’t use the car during the week while I was a grad school.
As an amateur linguist, I say that your work should be considered national treasure. Thank you!
Wow, thank you!
Here in the northeast, we do use fisticuffs, hunker down, ruination, and gall, although fisticuffs has a bit of a newsies'-era tinge to it, and the meaning of gall is slightly different.
We might say "mired," but only rarely, and probably not "mired up."
"Let on" seems to have drifted ever so slightly semantically from "let someone know the truth of a condition" to "pretend some other condition." We might use it in the latter way too here, I guess, but in a smaller ratio.
It's interesting to see them have opposite takes on which way yon way is. Just kidding!
@@danielbriggs991 I have met a few people from Pennsylvania who used the word 'yet' instead of 'still' which I found extremely interesting and somewhat confusing. For example, are you at work yet? Of course I am, it's 11 am and I work 6am to 4 pm. Did you mean are you STILL at work? Or is it snowing yet? Of course it is, it has been snowing for hours and you have commented on the snow already. Did you mean is it snowing STILL? Anyway, would you like to comment on this phenomenon?
I’m from Avoca in Ireland 🇮🇪 and so many of these words are part of our vocabulary. Update 23/07/23 Speaking to my nanny(grandmother 94) some of granddads side of the family emigrated to Kentucky to work in the coal mines due to there experience of mining in the Avoca copper mines here in Wicklow Ireland. So any Moores from Kentucky we are probably related 😂
It's because most people from the Appalachians have ancestry from there and Scotland. My DNA has a lot of Irish and Scottish.
Yup a lot of Scottish and Irish immigrant workers , busted their asses and we’re not given what they were promised , so they took to the mountains and woods and made a life for themselves there.
Yes!!!! Many Irish settled in the mountains my Grandmother's maiden name was Doyle she would harse instead of how we say horse. If you look also at mountain dancing..clogging it looks similar to Irish folk dancing much love from USA
@@brucelee5576 the terrain was what they were use too while others didn't care to till the rocky soil to plant the Irish and Scottish had been doing it for centuries in there land. The area appealed to them that's why they chose to go there. My family is from the Shenandoah valley Irish Scottish English and German decendants. I choose not to live there but have a ingrained respect and love of it.
@@teresasmith8946 Your Grandmother sure had a lovely surname , the meaning of which is Dark Stranger .
These girls are a riot. “Some people eat gizzards. There’s lotsa meat on a chicken and that’s what you choose to eat?” 😂🤣😂
My mom and grandmother got into a disagreement over the gizzards on a Thanksgiving.
My late mama used to love gizzards and my daddy does to this day. He loves chicken livers too. Blechhh!
KfC in Conway SC had fried gizzards on the menu...
Okay but when gizzards are done right they're amazing ok 😂🥰
I love gizzards and giblet gravy 😊
I'm 67 years old and this brought up so many precious memories of my parents and grandparents. Thank you so much!!!
Same for me @65
Thank you, very entertaining. My parents were Highland Scots, and a lot of the words you used are very similar to their speech and consequentially my own . I was born in Australia and similar words can often be heard in Australian slang.
Thanks again. John.
A lot of Scots & Irish settled in Appalachia
Im from the Highlands and if I ever see any Australian programmes I hear a lot of words/phrases that were used when I was a child. We have a more homogeneous language now thanks to tv and internet so young people are losing their individuality.
Yeah, I remember when I got stationed in Britain, how interesting it was to hear that alot of the words they used, my grandparents used!! We use to call the way my grandparents talked, "old English"---I never knew how literal that was!!!
I’m a Ulster Scot from Northern Ireland, I have no problems with any of it, occasionally their accent is a little difficult but part apart from that , its all very familiar.
That's what i was saying. I'm from County Down.
Do you speak the Scots language/Dae ye spick the Scots leid?
I'm from southern Ireland and I noticed that Katie used in her normal conversation there the phrase "More Ya". We use it here in English but it's from the Irish "Mar Ea" (Mar ya) meaning "As if" eg "you cleaned the car Mar Ya"/ "you act as if you cleaned the car".
The first big migration from Ireland to America was by the Scots-Irish from Ulster who were mostly Protestants. Many settled in the Appalacians. We can thank them for the great American "Country" music tradition.
The next big migration was later and was mostly by Catholics from all over Ireland who settled in some of the big cities such as NY and Boston.
The Scots-Irish and the Irish have had a big influence on American culture.
This was a Hell-of-a Show.
Thank ya, Ladies.
The Irish and Scotts are our ancestors!
That's because Appalachia was originally settled by Ulster Scotts sent over hear to wrestle the wilderness away from the Indians. King George was a bad person, but he knew who to send for fighting....The
The Scots-Irish. America still depends upon our region for the lions share of military leaders.
So many of these expressions feel like they've been taken straight out of Northern Ireland, and used in exactly the same context. It's wonderful.
AS A KID DIDN'T NOTICE THAT THE LANGUAGE WAS DIFFERENT TO I WENT AND VISITED MY COUSINS IN MICHIGAN. AT THE END OF A SENTENCE MOST THE TIME THEY SAY EH? I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT MEANT. COME TO FIND OUT THEY DIDN'T EITHER. JUST SOMETHING THEY SAID BECAUSE THEY WERE CLOSE TO CANADA, EH.?🤨🤔🙄🥴
Yeah, I remember when I got stationed in Britain, how interesting it was to hear that alot of the words they used, my grandparents used!! We use to call the way my grandparents talked, "old English"---I never knew how literal that was!!!
Irish music morphed into country music in the south.
@@AB..__.. : As did Irish dancing. Ever watched "Riverdance", and then country folk, clogging? It's basically the same thing!!!
Yes y'all hit it on the head as a lot of people in Appalachia are of Scotch- Irish descent! The Appalachian dialect is closest to a old Scottish dialect from back in the day.
My family was in Appalachia before the American Revolution and then emigrated to Oregon Territory in 1852. The language, customs, superstitions, and recipes have survived and come down to us 7 or more generations later. Amazingly, I knew quite a few of these words. Thank you for posting this!
Sounds like most of us, from all over, heard these words these words growing up. These are not Appalacian words.
My great grandmother ,born in 1909 on farm on a mountain in north east Alabama was my baby sister.i am 51 now and live in a different part of applachia now but hearing you say these words and phrases brings back all those memories.and yes I still use some of them and so does my kids and grandkids..thank you for trying to preserve our heritage...
A lot of these words have roots in Gaelic and the Scottish settlers that settled all along that area and there verbage from their native tongue over to English and has this morphed into the unique and beautiful language that is Appalachian 🤗🙏🏻🥰😇
Some of the older ones still had the Scottish brogue. I remember them well!
@@lewiemcneely9143 💜😇
@@Quin_79 There you go!!
You should hear the brogue of the people from Downeast Carteret Co., NC.
@@saraw8503 I have but it's not a lot different than here in the hills. Every region has their own differences but South is South, Thank God!
I'm in upstate SC, Irish, Scottish and English heritage and grew up hearing most of these words. Sounds so good to hear it again! I love your channel.
I remember seeing an article one time saying that South Carolina and Kentucky had the most similar vocabularies.
@@robertwilson2007 Yes, I find that to be true. I have travelled most of the USA, and whenever I visited KY, we spoke the same, same cadence, and used many of the same words not used in others parts of USA. Got to be the Scottish, Irish, Cherokee roots!
Come across the river into far northeast ga and western Nc. All locals still talk this way. The move ins are slowly but too quickly ruining it.
Me too. Thx.
@@camjam6015 "Mountain Talk" is very similar to Appalachian but the emphasis is different. All came from Irish and Scottish but the further north you go the more German and Moravian has influence.
'There's lots of good things on a chicken to eat & you choose that?!" She is 😆 hilarious. Love your girls.
My Daddy loved gizzards too - who ever thought of eating them first????
I agree with her, yuk I hate gizzards and liver too.
@@randeebecker2455 what about the claws? I just can’t understand eating that…
I have to agree with her! Lol
As Hank Hill says, "Now there just trying to sell us parts of the cow you throw away."
Your daughters are adorable…they make this twice as much fun.❤
I live in Spartanburg county, South Carolina and I have heard and used a good bit of these words and sayings, pretty much, on a regular basis. I think it's just peachy that you're keeping the language alive and educating those who have never heard it, or didn't understand it if they had heard it. Thank you, and Blessings to you and your family !!!
I was just about to comment this exact same thing! I’ve heard & used so many of these words/phrases throughout my life. I’m in Spartanburg county as well, Greer to be exact. Small world!
all words are the same just twested around from different teaches
the way they want us to say they all mean the same if a person can under stand go to our own city coladge over yander in gastonia nc
I also live in Spartanburg, SC. Grew up in Simpsonville. On Hwy 14 a couple of miles off Woodruff Rd. ( I remember it when it was all country). I’ve heard and used all these words except the one for tantrum.
As an adult I learned some of the words we used as children were Geechee/Gullah too.
This is crazy it really is a small world I grew up in TR SC and now live in Lyman South Carolina. I wish we could bring back the good old days when the upstate wasn’t infected with the subdivision disease.
It’s so cool to see how many of these words I actually use and know. 😀
@@adrianogomes7111 YES !! I Agree about the subdivision illness. I grew up in the corner of Hwy 14 and Maxwell Drive. We had fields and woods for miles to play in. Now if you Google search you’ll see it’s all houses right on top of each other. It’s a higher crime area too. It’s the same where I live now. Use to be all country. Now it’s grocery stores and fast food restaurants. Multiple schools. I hate it.
It is amazing to hear these words from the Appalachia natives. I live in the Scottish Borders and a lot of this terminology, slightly different but still has the same meaning. Like the word - baite - still means to eat here in the borders. Each town in the borders has its own accent and dialect. Yet there are words they use to explain the same thing.
Thank you for the lesson in Appalachia dialect. It’s interesting to see how languages have evolved and the roots of where they have come from.
Isn't it fascinating? My family on both sides are from the Blueridge mountains Shenandoah Valley of Virginia it is a beautiful area. My ancestors were Scottish Irish mostly, English and German. If you look at mountain dancing they call it clogging to me it looks similar like Irish folk dancing or Highland Dance. We are all connected my friend. Be safe in these times
The Scots Irish did migrate into the hills of Appalachia for some time and formed a subculture there before the Revolution.
I would love it if you would make a list of all the words she mentions that you have in Scottish. (I realize scots speak english, but you know what I mean.)
I could watch these two forever! More quizzes please! They may not want to, but they are very entertaining:))
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I am plumb terrified that I understood near everything you said. My grandparents, that I grew up next door to, were from Blue Ridge and Blairsville, GA.
This is great 🤣 Your daughters are so funny and adorable with their accents! Keep up the great videos 👍🏼
What accents??? I'm from Harlan County....
@@marktazz4521 If you really can't hear an accent, you've never left the Blugrass state then man. It's all relative to ones own environment but bro, the accents are thick. I'm from Cincinnati but live in Belgium and I can immediately pick up on mid-west/Appalachia accents being that I grew up for 30-years in it. People here in Belgium even say I have an accent. Mid-west and Appalachian accents have a style on their own (even within America) and if you've never really been out of ol' Harlin Kentucky, I'm sure you can't hear it then...
@@ahart12311 Whoosh...
@@ahart12311 Folks in Harlan County, lord, they knew that we was poor.... They always called my daddy Preacher Dan~~
...But dad he weren't no preacher, leastways I don't recollect... Papa made his livin' off the land...
@@marktazz4521 my moms family is from Harlan
My grandfather spoke an Appalachian dialect, and with a strong accent, and he used a lot of these words (plus a lot of uncommon ones.) It could be hard to understand him at times, though I understood him pretty well since I grew up hearing it from him. He learned it from his dad, who was originally from a little insulated pocket community in the Smokies. He left when he married a woman from the Cherokee reservation and moved south. I did a living history project before my grandparents died. I interviewed them when I was in college, and I’m so glad I have those stories now, as well as a record of Papaw’s dialect. My dad and aunts don’t speak that way, and their accents were much more moderate, so it’s really interesting (and a little sad) how quickly we lose regional dialects and accents. I barely have a southern accent anymore after living abroad for the past 10+ years, and sometimes I miss hearing it.
I've got the worst/best drawl of my whole blamed family and we're all natives. I was in the Army with 2 Joyzee guys and got so I could mock them to a tee. I still do it to the Yankee friends around here but always revert back to my hillbilly roots.
You should send a copy to the Museum of Appalachia in Norris TN. They're affiliated with the Smithsonian Institute. I'm sure they would appreciate it and it would be available for researchers! 😀
Blatherskith is about the only one we don’t use here in Eastern Kentucky!Your daughters are lucky to know most of the words.
Angel W,I sure would like to share some of your Stories of your grandparents.
It's great you said that bout your grandparents my great grandparents were from way down in Florida but they had the best accent but my papa didn't have it as hard as them and my mom ain't got one at all or at least it's very modern I moved to Appalachia PA and went to visit my mom and granny and they say I done lost all my accent but up here the PA folk say it's a southern accent lol I said to my Ma I'm a man with out a country but if I move back to North Carolina and maybe my accent will fit right in
Thank You for the terminology lesson of my Scott-Irish lineage. It explains how this language of around 10 generations from North Carolina through Tennessee and ending up in Western Oklahoma with my relatives.
Same in the Virginia mountains....
I am Canadian from a city with strong British influence - I definitely recognize some of the individual words. It is fascinating what words have stuck, or only modestly evolved. The phrases are more challenging.
Your daughters are so lovely & their smiles are infectious! You must be so proud of them! Thank you so much for sharing these bits of Appalachia vocabulary with us!
I really must agree with Jimmy. Your daughters are are wonderful.
My dad was from eastern Kentucky. We’d visit every 2 years and our cousins spoke with this accent and language. Great people and incredible stories they told about growing up in the 20s and 30s.
As an Australian, I recognise a lot of these terms as old English words learnt from my Great Grandmother and Grandmother. I still use them today haha.
I was told (by people of the south) that some of the mountain people have a British accent.
@@THX-vb8yz oh wow thats interesting
Appalachia is difficult terrain so the settlers there remained a great deal more cut off from other places. As a result the culture from the 'old world' was reatined more than elsewhere in USA
History of people has been hidden. All being revealed!
Fascinating hey! Lots of descendants of Scots / Irish in both places, stands to reason some of the old words survive.
I'm a 79 year old woman from Nova Scotia Canada, and grew up in the country. I knew and grew up with about 90% of the words. I still use some of them . Actually we had a skiff of snow this morning. I enjoy your tests.
I'm amazed how much Appalachia language I was raised with in Northern South Carolina. Apparently my Scots-Irish heritage came from western North Carolina and moved into South Carolina. I love this and learning more about our heritage.
My families are from Louisiana/ Mississippi by way of S. Carolina in the 1800’s. I was born and raised in Texas. So many of these words I grew up with.
@@dianem4919 Texas is South. HAS to be! And some of the SC folks just waller words around a little bit. Like the politician that said SOOTH for South.
Appalachian dialect is the base for most Southern blue collar folks. Usually in the rhotic R that really gets on my nerves with folks who are playing someone from the South they fail to place R's consistently. You go hard R or just go full plantation Belle (which is rare outside of older ladies in my neck of deeeeeep southeast Alabama)
@@THEBIGFISH_55no one drops their r’s under like 70 in the south anymore. Being from Va, the Virginia accent was non rhotic but no one under senior citizen age drops their R anymore idk why
As a British lady almost 60 years old I recognised pretty much all the words which I was really happy about. And of course, the accent for me made it a little harder, I figured I got about half. 😆😆😆 very cool video.
Interesting that you say that. Because it’s my understanding that the southern dialect and accent has its roots in and is very similar to British. That it was a sophisticated accent as well.
A lot of West Virginians are from Ireland 🇮🇪
God shave the Queen. 😂 😂 😂
That is so neat!
@@nancyj5490 I'm from Boston and I notice that our accents are very similar to the english/british dialict.
Appalachian just have their own slang words which confuse a lot. That's my thoughts.
My great-grandparents moved from Ireland to Tennessee. I'm proud to say I knew most of these. I'm glad there are people keeping Appalachian history/language alive!
Mine came from County Claire IR to Flemingsburg Kentucky. PROUD of my Mountain roots.
Before of after 1840? I have Scotch-Irish family from Ulster than arrived in the early 1700's and Irish family that came after 1840. Also a scattering of Highland Scots and English from the south. Has to be a Welshman in the woodpile somewhere too. LOL Also late arriving Germans 1880's.
I’m a born in California and lived all my life of 67 years in cali, but my folks and ancestors are from appalatchia, and hearing ya’ll speak with such a beautiful accent brings back great memories thank you so much.
I’m Southern from Louisiana and this is the vocabulary I grew up on.
The two young ladies are absolutely beautiful. I got such a kick out of their answers.
My dad's & my hubby's families are from southern Alabama & Florida panhandle, and I got about 90% right.
My mom was born in the South but her momma is midwestern and I didn't realize how much that effected my accent even today.
My first Kentucky word I learned was “flarebit.” (flower bed) I’m a native Californian and my Mom transplanted to Waco, Kentucky 28 years ago. Thank you for keeping Appalachian culture alive. Wonderful daughters you have.
Yeah I've never heard that word.
They’re not saying flarebit 😂😂 it’s flower bed with the accent. -Kentucky native here lol
LOL it's flower bed. You're just not used to the local accident.
Never heard that lol
That's just how they pronounced flower bed.
The words are delightful. I grew up with so many of these words or sayings. My parents lived in Unaka, which was "down below" Murphy, N.C. Right after WWII my father married my mother and they moved to middle Georgia, but they always went "up home" every Decoration Day, which was not celebrated where they now lived. Whenever I spent time up home and came back, my husband told me I talked funny, not only because of the vocabulary but also the pronunciation.
Anyway, thank you for your posts on Appalachia.
I'm from southeast Ohio, and I say SO MUCH of this! I never realized that a lot of my accent and vocabulary is Appalachian. This was so fascinating.
Of course: southeast Ohio is almost West Virginia.
Such beautiful young ladies. Their voices and accents have surely stolen the hearts of every young beau for a hundred miles around.
It’s lovely how many of these words have become the vernacular in America. Both of my parents are from Philadelphia and New York and they used many of these regularly. Now I know where they came from. Thank you!
My grandparents were from Green Cove VA and this is how they spoke. How my dad spoke. When we had a massive family reunion in the 1970s, people came from all the hollers all around the area. There were hundreds, and they all spoke like this. I've never seen anything like it since
I grew up just off of the Blueridge Mountains in Southwest Virginia. Most of these words I heard throughout my younger days and adolescence. It’s fun to hear them again, it’s like being at home!
My granny and Papaw were from Kentucky originally but moved to Ohio sometime after getting married so I grew up hearing some of these. I sure miss hearing them talk. My papaw died when I was in high school. I took it pretty hard because we were very close. Thank you for bringing up some happy memories of them.
My Dad's family is from Appalachia Tennessee. Once we were visiting my Aunt and she asked my Dad if he would buy her some dope. He asked her what she said and she told him the same thing. It was finally explained that she was asking him to go to the store and buy her some coca cola. I laughed so hard when we found out what she really wanted. My Dad took her to the store and bought her some dope. 😂 I've heard some of these other words from my relatives and sometimes even from my Dad. Thanks for sharing.
As a northern Canadian 🇨🇦 (1,000 miles north of Toronto) I was surprised to hear many of the Appalachian words are identical to ours & have the same meaning in our vocabulary…
Cheers from HudsonBay Area 🇨🇦
(Common (Scottish) ancestry could explain why both areas use same & similar words...)
I'd like to someday visit your Area, it must be beautiful there and it sounds like our vocabularies are similar enough I'd feel welcome there- I'm sure my Scots-irish heritage is evident in my speech.
Same. I’m from northern MN. These are more old fashioned slag words.
Agreed
U live in a store ?
I’m glad to see some Appalachians on UA-cam. Our people need more positive representation, out there.
Americans are represented
I'll be moving to Eastern Kentucky yo volunteer next month, I can't wait to meet the people there
The Wild and Wonderful Whites is on netflix
Why? I’m never going to celebrate ignorance in any shape or form. If African Americans speak gibberish or Caucasian Appalachians speak gibberish, it’s still gibberish.
That comma placement cany be right. Right???
Spent some time in Murphy two years ago and it was so beautiful up there. Can’t wait to go back.
My grandmother used a lot of those words.
Always thought it was interesting how many Appalachian words and phrases have remained unchanged from old Scots-Irish
Most Appalachian people are from Scot/Irish decent
I believe that's why Ralph said that.
@@capnkirk933 - That we are. I can trace part of my roots to Scotland, when my ancestors arrived in the 1800's, as well as the Cherokee Nation. I have an ancestor that was lost on The Trail of Tears. No record of her after a certain date.
I'm familiar with a number of 'em. I grew up in the Virginia Piedmont, less than 20 miles from the Blue Ridge.
I have scots-Irish Heritage too... that must be why I knew so many words. My great-grandparents and grandparents said most these words. I wasn’t understanding why I knew so many..and use so many. I’m just a small town, bare foot Missourian. I thought everyone said ov’r younder. Lol. I can go back many generations to just right here. Thank you for this comment. It was nice to learn this is where these words stem from.
I love this. I passed the test. My mom and dad were from KY. I was born in Ohio , but this was the usual talk at our house. Mom and dad are gone and this was such a pleasure to hear. Thank you for sharing. The girls are beautiful and so good natured. It's nice to see these words won't die out.
It really hits me, just how much my Appalachian ancestors carried this vocabulary through the generations! I knew most of them!
Y'all are so wonderful! I am 65 years old, and was raised in Atlanta by Mississippi parents, but my family came over to these shores way back before the American Revolution, settling mostly in Virginia. I was pleased to know many (possibly most!) of the terms you tested the girls with. I remember my maternal grandmother telling me that growing up they all referred to Coke as dope, so that one I definitely knew! This was my first visit to your page, and I will be back. I love hearing about ancient words and phrases, especially of those in the Southern part of America. God bless you all!
Welcome and thank you 😊
I’m a Northeast Tennessean, and my Daddy spoke these Appalachian words! My Mama spoke proper English, and all but a couple of their eight children spoke more like Mama. We had a bit of trouble understanding Daddy, a lot! Humorously giggles a lot, though! 🙏❤️
Southern Illinois here - like 30 minutes from Kentucky - my maternal grandma used a bunch of these words. My uncle still does, as do the rest of that side. My family came thru Appalachia (on both sides) and ended up here in the coal mines and farming. My Mom always used proper English though. It’s fun to hear this.
Lafollette here!
We love these “tests” :) We’re a family of writers and we love learning new words, but Appalachian dialects are so interesting because so many are Elizabethan English. My family is from Appalachia, long gone now since WW2 and the migration to steel jobs, but it remains part of who we are. I still tell the stories to my son. Thanks for sharing this with us. It provides a connection to a place we need never forget as long as someone keeps it alive.
What's a "spinster?" surprised me. Thought that word was only used in the U.K.
@Simon Archbold Wonder if they say, "I don't give a fiddlers f**k". 😂
It’s a good place to return to if it gets too ugly out there. Mountain blood never forgets.
@@garywhitt98 we will never go back. It’s become too political and we wouldn’t be welcome. Community is important.
I am English (nearer 70 than 65) and am amzed that I knew around 80% of the meanings, though the younger you are here, the more the words aren't used. Could you do superstitions please?
Fascinating!!!! I was born in Jamaica and a lot of the words sounded very similar to some of our words. Of course accents (yours and ours)makes them sound a bit different but the meaning were the same and these are word that were/are used mostly by the older folks. Amazing! The more I learn about other cultures the more I realize this is a small world in many ways. A lot of your food also reminds me of food from our country/rural area. Wow!! Thank you for sharing.
Ain’t nothing like a Jamaica language. Thank you very much. 👎🏼
@@emilinebelle7811 yes it is. Jamaican language is patois, a broken English and Appalachian language is broken English. You have more similarities then you could imagine.
@@emilinebelle7811 Irish taught slaves English in Jamaica. Irish have commented that some words here are familiar, so it makes sense that the Jamaican DIALECT of Patois would be reminiscent of Appalachian English.
@@emilinebelle7811 thank God we don't need more in-bred language
Jamaicans didn't come direct from Africa, but arrived after first coming to the USA. I imagine the vocabulary will have travelled with them when they settled in Jamaica. The words are largely inherited from older Celtic peoples who settled there too. Much the same way that Aussie slang is mostly just inherited from and evolved from cockney English. The language spoken by the common people, the working class and criminal class. It is seen as Aussie slang today but is easily traced back to Victorian England.
Half of my ancestors moved from Scotland to Appalachia a long time ago and so much of my family talks like this! I love that you’re archiving this for future generations
I was born and raised in East Tennessee but haven’t been home in over twenty years, listening to this really brought back wonderful memories, thank you so much for sharing.
Maryville here...
Well, they law. Got us some Volunteers here. I'm from White Pine myself. About a half hour or so East of Knoxville. Y'uns be purdy, now
I absolutely LOVE this. I’m an RN in SW Virginia. I heard sayings like this when I was young from my grandparents and family who lived “ in the country.” Today, I thank my Mom who has “ passed on”for enriching my life. I can talk with all types of people, but my heart goes with every patient that uses these phrases. They “light up . “
I’m from central Kentucky, and I didn’t realize how many of these words and phrases were Appalachian! I thought everybody used them! 😂 A few of them I haven’t heard anybody use since I was a kid and hearing them again really tickled me! Several of them I use everyday and didn’t realize they were regional. I love learning about languages, especially about regional dialects and accents, so thank you for this, I really enjoyed it!
Hahaha we say Old Biddy over here too in Sheffield, England, UK. Made me laugh as I would have never expected an old biddy making an appearance 🤣
I love how cute these girls talk. I’m from West Virginia but I have lived on the west coast for longer. I love the accent and happy when mine returns occasionally.
“Some of this just ain’t true”. So cute
I was born and raised in California, my grandparents were from East Tennessee and west NC, my Popo kept his accent till he passed. I have the normal California non accent. I moved to the south for a while, people couldn’t understand me. So different the vernacular is from region to region.
From being razed with my grandparents, I knew a lot of these words.
They're adorable!
They are very cute
I agree. Love the way they talk, interact & obviously the way they look.
I'm from the Missouri Ozarks and it's fascinating how much of our culture and regional dialect is descended from the Appalachians. I would say that I knew about 80% of these terms.
Me too...people think my accent is from texas
Yes. I lived in the Ozarks for several years in the '80's and heard a lot of these words and phrases used, especially by the older generation. One word I remember that I have not heard of before or since was "donnick" used to mean a large rock.
I watched an interesting video once about American accents and a lot of the westward expansion from the south came out of North Carolina for some reason I can’t remember. But you could directly see how the Appalachian dialect spread west from there.
I'm wasn't raised in the Ozarks , although people were from all parts of MO. I recognized many words!
I was raised in Kansas and the Bronx but my grandmother and grest aunt were from north Missouri and this is the vocabulary i
carried with me wherever I went. My sons favorite saying is "crazier than a hoot owl "
I am so glad I came across this channel! My Granny (1889-1987) from Tennessee talked this way. She would call a stick a "stob", and a twig a "tooth brush" for her snuff "backer" When it was time to go to bed, She would say " Hit the Tick" LOL. Our family still uses these words everyday.
I've listened to my Meemaw speak these words my whole life and it gives me so much comfort! I appreciate these videos, sending y'all love from KY💙
My dad was the first in whole family to go to college......he said he struggled and worked so hard to command standard (unaccented) English, so he would fit in. He became aschool administrator. On the other hand, I loved the way my grandparents and cousins talked, and grew up emulating vocabulary and accents😊
I love this! You're preserving our history. This is great info for writers, too,
"stogging means the ground has provided you with resistance"
I love eloquence with a southern accent. 🥰
Born and raised in North Alabama 65 years and got almost all of these. The girls are simply adorable. Y'all sound like home to me.
Appalachia has such an influence across the country. German, English, Irish here. Thanks for the great work.
This was so interesting learning about your language and culture! Thank you for sharing! Just a request, can you please put the word on the screen as you say it, or include a list in the description, so we can see how it's spelt? Especially for people from across the world who might have a harder time understanding your accent but would love to learn more! Thank you!
Spelt ?
A lot of the words used here aren't A word, but rather a compound word.
'You'uns" for instance, is "You Ones". It's something you'll hear fairly often in the eastern end of where I live.
Other words, like "The Epizooties" is a bastardization of an actual scientific word or term. In this case, an epizoological outbreak... an epidemic among animals.
And words like "bate"... I have no idea. Just another form and spelling for "bait", maybe?
"Hollar" of course, probably comes from a land feature you have to yell across to be heard.
The point I'm trying to make is the spelling itself may take quite a bit of explaining to make sense. lol
I've lost count of how many words or terms I used to hear and understand every day, but no longer do because the people they made sense to are now long gone.
...and also due to the people now moving into the area having no history with them at all.
It's a sad thing, I guess, but language really does change and evolve... even within the few years I've been alive. ( 60 and counting, so far. )
@@guarddog318 I think Hollar is just a phonetic spelling for "Hollow" which is a small valley "hollowed out" of the hills.
Love your intrest, some words may be spelled slightly different from 1 localized area to another.
@@christophersmith8316 - A hollow also tends to be dead ended, usually having only one way in or out.
That doesn't change the fact that people on one side of it have to "holler" at people on the other.
Also, do you know what a "field holler" is?
It's a kind of song or chant that laborers used to do as they worked the fields, to help pass the time.
Sailors on ship used to do something similar when pulling lines, to help stay in sync with each other as they hauled.
Railway workers did the same as they laid the train tracks.
One way or the other, "Holler" and "yell", are synonymous here in the south.
Here, let these ladies try to explain it to ya:
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I'm from southern West Virginia I knew almost everyone of these..but I've lived in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee so my dialect has changed so much over the years I sound more "southern belle" now but I know my roots. I feel it's a dieing language..good for you keeping it alive.
My mother from strawberry plains, Tennessee said a majority of this vocabulary, I never associated it with being from Appalachia I just thought it was just way people talked. My mom passed away 10 years ago and it’s good to hear these words again.
Some really good memories thank you! Especially loveed hearing “I’m gonna get me a dope” she said that all the time.
A sodee dope!
It’s really interesting to me as a middle-aged woman who grew up in California how many of these phrases are part of my regular vocabulary.
Exactly I was starting to think we're hillbillies too
I was looking through the comments and found myself just now!!! 😁
I love how down to earth and blunt southern girls are lol. These two are the cutest. Always been a sucker for a woman with a southern accent anyway. 😍❤✌
GSM..great state of Missouri..I thought all of us were patriots...f j b
As a guy from England that lives in the Midwest, it's crazy to me how many words I've heard used before in the UK. Also, you guys have thee best accent in the entire world.
Thank you 😀
My husband came over from England...and we live in Iowa too!
I'm from East Midlands and I'm the same - so many words are the kind of thing we'd say, particularly in th North, West Country and East Anglia where the culture hasn't been taken over by the South counties. I'd be curious to know if Appalachians use words like jitty (alleyway), croggie (give a lift on a bicycle), rammel (trash), larrup (slap or add thickly), snided (busy, congested), mardy (sulky)?
@@avaggdu1 The only one I'm familiar with is larrup, but we would say larrupin to mean something is really good to eat 😀 Thank you so much for sharing the words. Hopefully if someone else is familiar with their usage here they'll chime in 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia Aye, 'appen. I asked me mam what's fer dinnah an she said "shit wi' sugar on!" so I asked me nan to larrup some jam onna cob but nana 'ad a cob on an she gave me a larrupin' instead!
Ta-ra, mi duck!
(Yes, quite. I enquired of Mother Dearest what repast she had prepared for our evening meal but she declined, so I asked Grandmother for thick jam on some bread but she was in a bad mood and gave me a heavy-handed slap for my trouble!
Farewell, my friend!) 😄
I can see how larrupin' something like jam, whipped cream or honey on anything would be good to eat so that makes sense.
A lot of phrases that I couldn't have come up with but knew right away. My mom might have left Hazard Kentucky, but Hazard never left her. I love listening to you voice. I hear echoes of my aunties & grandmothers.
I was born in Hazard. Only hospital in the area back then.
Boy, a lot of the words left me bumfuzzled. What a great channel. Most of my family had roots in the Appalachians and I heard these words in context at some point over my 65 years. I love using them in conversation from time to time just to see folks expressions... Priceless! Keep up the good work!
My 5th-grade son had a substitute teacher for a couple of weeks, she was originally from Appalachia. She was full of colorful expressions like "Ah c'd do this 'til the cows come home" and "you sit real tight now, I'll be back in two shakes of a lamb's tail." The kids really enjoyed her time there.
OMGoodness, I’m sitting here laughing my head off! Those girls are adorable and so funny!! What a joy they must be to you!!
I was raised by my grandmother & she was from Ohio County, Kentucky. She used so many of these words. It was great hearing them used again 💜
Growing up in the Pittsburgh area my Mom always told me that if the US failed we would be the Appalachians and I love seeing you bring our often hidden culture to light
Heartbreaking 💔 and unbelievable what happened to the indigenous people. Send you a hug from Germany
My mother's family is from rural Georgia, she's half native (t'saligi) and white. And i grew up hearing almost all of those words from them, i just didn't remember all of the meanings for them. Some of the meanings i do remember though! This video is giving me serious nostalgia. The accent is just like theirs and visiting the south has always been so pleasant,southern foods,hospitality,cultures and wilflife just can't be beat for me. It's good for the soul.
This is fascinating. My Scot-Irish ancestors (and my spouse's too) came from Appalachia generations ago yet these words are still in our vocabulary. As we age our Appalachia accent gains strength. Wash-> Warsh
My mamaw was like that, fire=far
Long on the r lol
many of your words would have come from scotland with the early scots settlers. english and welsh too.
@@brucecollins4729 🏴
@@coltoncain2726 Man, in class I got a ribbin for saying war when I meant wire. Pretty funny
Katie is hilarious. I could listen to these girls talk all day. Love their accents.
Not bad on the eyes either.
I read a book called how Scots invented the modern world! It explains how we talk now, and how the southern language developed. Crick-creek, etc.
I knew most of those, Tip, but then I should considering how old I am! The girls are funny, I love how free spirited they are! You and the Deerhunter did a good job raising them!
So nice to hear that accent and those phrases again. Miss Appalachia. Great job raising those young ladies! They respect each other, their mama, and themselves. Thanks for this video.
So glad you enjoyed it 😀
I'm from South western Virginia and got about 70% of these right. Some I didn't know and others I only hear our old timers use. Thanks for keeping our history and culture alive because I feel like our younger generation have lost a lot of our linguistic heritage.
I’m from Southwestern Virginia. I’m from Vansant Virginia or the big town of Grundy Virginia. I now live in Nashville Tn
I'm from Roanoke
I blame us always being told that it was a disadvantage and that we were dumb by talking that way. I'm glad I have grown to be appreciative for my Appalachian heritage and accent. It unfortantly took me leaving home to gain it. Now I'm always missing the mountains.
Rap culture has been taken more seriously that they've made a urban dictionary I said the same thing in discovering it " what in tar nations " 🤣
I’m from Wythe County Va. I’ve been gone from there for 30 years. But the values and attitude of Appalachia never leave me.
My mother grew up in south Georgia, and her mother was from the mountains of Tennessee, but I was born and raised in Wisconsin. I didn't expect to do well on this test, but found that I knew the meaning and usage of one after another of these words. Thanks for such a great video! The girls are adorable.
Every time I watch you I am reminded of my family. I had forgotten how deeply my family was rooted in those mountains and trees. Hearing these words and realizing they are from Appalachia is a nostalgic comfort and an educational experience. I feel like I’m visiting with my grandparents and hearing their words. 💜
"I'm gonna lay off drinking cuz it's wrong" - and I'm rolling. This video is a gem! I'm a Yankee and understand about 10% of this but am 100% entertained! Good stuff! 👍 (in my Yankee defense, Smokey and the Bandit is the greatest movie of all time, so I ain't all bad 😀 )
Y’all are salt of the earth people…need lots more like you folks.
Yeah, no. There were some pretty big assholes up in NY, but these folks take the cake. If you're not from here, or looking to buy meth, I'd keep driving.
@@ilovebutterstuff dang man. Won’t you chill? You seem upset. These folks seem as nice of people you’d ever meet. I don’t understand how you could be so ugly to them on their page. They’re not saying anything remotely offensive to anyone. Regardless, I will say a prayer for you and I do hope God supernaturally blesses you my friend. Everything’s gonna be alright.
I'd argue we've got wayyyyyy more than we need.
@@rallenbronc alas he is saying the truth. Not about ALL of the people, but sadly a lot of them nowadays. Can't argue with truth. I will say a prayer that you open your mind and learn to listen instead of turn to ignorance when you don't like what you're hearing.
@@thedawg2023 thank you for the prayers my friend
My family has been in southeastern Ohio and West Virginia since the early 1800’s. I’d heard a lot of these words growing up and use some of them myself. I had no idea that most of these were Appalachian. I had always grown up trying to hide the part of myself that I thought was different or “country” but now I know that that part was my Appalachian ancestors and I’m proud to raise my kids to be proud of their Appalachian heritage.
I'm almost 70; the youngest child of older parents. Although Midwestern, I knew several of your Appalachian words. However, our definition of a blatherskite was someone who seldom stopped talking. Several words that were common in my childhood have vanished. Example #1: Dun (or dunning letter) is a bill/invoice that arrives through the mail. Example #2: Dast (or dastn't) is whether it's okay to do something. i.e. "He dastn't come around here asking to borrow money". Example #3: Shitepoke is just a slur you call someone when you want to insult them. I love language and words, but they are always evolving.
??? Dun? We use it all the time in Alabama. "Got 2 duns and a vote flyer". Dast is simply a contraction that is very useful for short cut English. Does not dare..what a boring bit to put into a sentence! Shitepoke is early English. Today's children say it much more basic...a sh** bag. The etymology of these words are fascinating!
@@DodiTov Thanks, that's fun to hear! So few people I meet know what those words mean. I always suspected dast was a shortened form of darest, and dastn't of darest not.
My Dad used that word "Dastn't" and it had the same meaning. "Deef" was another word common in his speech which meant to be deaf. I too loved to hear what I thought were zingers (mistakes in speech).
Why am I now in love with your girls? Natural beauty in both of them, their smiles and their personalities are golden. Not to mention their cute accents.
Thank you for taking the time to keep Appalachian culture, and by proxy our history, alive. It is amazing to see how many of the same words are found here in West Virginia as well.
I was born in CA and left there in '48 at the age of 10. We relocated in AR at the bottom of the Ozarks. Needless to say, I had to learn a new language. I remember my neighbors speaking a little strange. At the time I was unaware of the Appalachia language. Later in life I discovered the language of the Ozarks was just a branch of the Appalachian language. I had to learn the language just to know what was being said around me. Now in my mid-eighties your posting is music to my ears, Thank you and your beautiful daughters.
So glad you enjoyed it 😊
When i young and was full of meaness, Mom would say "wait til your dad gits home and heel get the strap out" or worse when i had to cut the switch myself. But it absolutely worked and i remembered not to mess around. Also when it was over no more was said about it and you went on with your chores. Fly the straight and narrow was another saying used. Great parents from the olden days from Ozarks area in Missouri & big thicket area in southern Texas with prior connection to Kentucky and Tennessee.
Thank You for the great video's and God Bless America.
I am from WV and I spent a summer around a lot of Irish kids (18-23). 2/3rds of the words here were words that they regularly used.
I loved this! East Tennessee born an raised! My nickname growing up was meannees my daddy always called that! Seeing your girls not knowing that word at first was hilarious! They seem like such sweet lovely young ladies, I Love your videos!
I grew up in a predominantly Irish family in the Piedmont region of VA. Almost all these words were uttered from my Grandparents and other family members from their generation. I used to try not to use these phrases because people automatically assumed I was dumb or uncultured. I’ve traveled around the world and heard so many different words and phrases that I honestly couldn’t possibly understand or remember them all. The ways in which we communicate are astounding to me! I Love It!!
I sure do love to hear you all talk! I’m east coast though but we still sound the same in so many ways. I transplanted via marriage and will forever be homesick. One of my favorite things when I get to go home is to sit and listen to people talk. I am delighted to hear the the accents and phrases I no longer get to hear often! Thank you all for sharing a little piece of home!🥰
Aww 🥰. I am from East Tennessee but have lived in South Florida for 25 years . It was so fun to come across you girls , you all are adorable 🥰!!!
My grandmother lived to be 104 , born in 1896 and passed away in 2000 needless to say we heard most if not all those words lol . Thank you for reminding me of some of them.
Much Love , Lisa
My dad's father was a hillbilly from Avery County NC and I was amazed by how many of these terms I know. For nearly 20 years we had family reunions, usually staying in Boone but visiting family all over the area. I guess now I know why my dad's side of the family talks like this. This was really fun to watch.
When I was real little, like 8 years old or so, in the late 80's, I moved to North Carolina from florida. I was soooo confused for a few years!!! Everytime somebody would say something to me, i always responded with a "huh?" People either thought ibwas dead or dumb!!
Watch the outsiders series on wgn a series about the hillbillies, when the government was removing them forcibly in order to mine coal and oil.
@@masterwoods6586 yeah that's funny,I went from Ky to Ala and I couldn't understand half of it.
Seems like it came out so fast and the words may have been pronounced similar but meant the same.
Fixing to go,which is kinda weird to me but Ala say fittin to go.
I noticed quite a few like that but I've forgotten.
I helped set all the robots,presses conveyors and all it takes to make a car.
I was a union milwright for years and have helped to set up car manufacturers all over the place.
I miss that job.
Too old these days.
God bless.
@@gloriaanderson7424 it's really a terrible history. The history of mining in general is a brutal one. My great grandmother was from WV and I'm so glad the holler she was from was not destroyed by strip mining. I still have some lovely poems she wrote about where she grew up and the natural beauty of the mountains. She only had a 4th grade education but a talent with words.
Oh, I've been to Boone- it's BEAUTIFUL! 😍
Im from Lafollette Tennessee and im right proud of us! Thank you good ma'am! ❤❤❤ Im part Cherokee, part Irish, and part Hawaiian. My papaw was Cherokee and my mamaw was irish on my momma side and my daddy is Hawaiian. Im Appalachia proud as the day is long! ❤❤❤