Speak Like an Appalachian - Mountain Talk Examples

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  • Sharing Appalachian Language in this video! Hope you'll leave a comment and let us know which examples you use or hear from others.
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  • @CelebratingAppalachia
    @CelebratingAppalachia  5 місяців тому +15

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  • @walterlang151
    @walterlang151 5 місяців тому +90

    I once asked students to use the word "best" in a sentence. One boy wrote, "You best do what your mom tells you to."

  • @apiecemaker1163
    @apiecemaker1163 5 місяців тому +26

    My grandson when he was about two, would do so something he was proud of and say, “look-a-hear, look-a-hear.” It was so cute.

  • @SherylPaulFTP
    @SherylPaulFTP 5 місяців тому +14

    I was raised in FL every single one of these phrases I grew up hearing and saying.

  • @dianad4633
    @dianad4633 5 місяців тому +9

    I’m definitely Appalachian, through and through. Still use so many of these. My grandma would always say “scat there” after a sneeze; “I’ll be John Brown” meaning well what about that. When I was little I suddenly started whistling all the time and she told me that “A whistling girl and a crowing hen, both will come to the same bad end.” 😂

    • @sherrybaird570
      @sherrybaird570 5 місяців тому +2

      My Granny use to say the same thing about the whistling woman and a crowing hen.
      And she use to say if you laugh to much you would be sick the next day.
      I married into a laughing family. I have never laughed so much in my life.
      When my father in law passed away I did his eulogy and I mention my Granny's saying and if that was true the whole Baird clan would have dropped over dead because of the laughter in the house. They were known for having so much clean fun.

  • @denisew.3447
    @denisew.3447 5 місяців тому +23

    We still use so many of those sayings here in Northwest Georgia too. My daddy especially used a lot of these old sayings. He would have just turned 94 on Dec 21st. Been gone a few years now. He was country as cornbread and was proud of it.

  • @soulfoodsmama2980
    @soulfoodsmama2980 5 місяців тому +5

    My husband just brought home a kitten and the lil thing is growing into an absolute heathern.

  • @Clfike
    @Clfike 5 місяців тому +4

    I knew every one of these. Reckon I qualify as an Appalachian! I have spent much of my life there! ❤

  • @dougrichardson5275
    @dougrichardson5275 5 місяців тому +13

    Thanks for sharingTipper. So almost all of this (with the exception of goodest) is just normal every day language that I say and have said all my life. What seems strange to me is that anyone would find it unusual or noteworthy. But it's all just a matter of where you grow up and what you're used to.

  • @joeeverett9775
    @joeeverett9775 5 місяців тому +4

    Grew up with most of these expressions down in the piedmont in Davie county. We’re country here too.

  • @phyllisarrington7436
    @phyllisarrington7436 5 місяців тому +6

    I'm 68 now. My 3 sisters and I still love to kid and joke and laugh about things.
    We'll say we got so tickled we like to "fell out" 😂
    Ever now and again, one of us will literally fall out of our chair from laughing. 😅

  • @elevensxeggos9364
    @elevensxeggos9364 5 місяців тому +5

    Growing up in the ozark mountains of Arkansas, i thought we were the only ones who said these things!! Lol

    • @CelebratingAppalachia
      @CelebratingAppalachia  5 місяців тому +1

      😊

    • @debluetailfly
      @debluetailfly 5 місяців тому +1

      Lots of folks migrated from Appalachia to the Ozarks and Ouachitas. Looked more like home than anywhere else they would ever find.

  • @hillbilly03richardson61
    @hillbilly03richardson61 5 місяців тому +6

    Much obliged for this channel! What'cher hurry, I'm frazzled, I'm give out, I'm done tuckered out! I really enjoy your channel!!!!

  • @KennyP88
    @KennyP88 5 місяців тому +5

    What’s interesting is, I grew up in a coastal town north of Boston and a few of these phrases or words were everyday use in our family too. I been living here in the Appalachian south now, near on 25 years and I love the language and it’s roots going back to those hardy Scottish families. ❤

  • @rad7965
    @rad7965 5 місяців тому +4

    I'm76 and have talked like that my whole life. I knew everyone of the phrases and use them in my everyday talking. Never knowed it was something special talking like that.

  • @gb1914
    @gb1914 5 місяців тому +7

    I live about as far away from the Appalachian mountains as possible and I use a few of these, especially how come and heaps. 🇦🇺

  • @HobnobWithBob
    @HobnobWithBob 5 місяців тому +6

    I feel blessed to have grown up around family who used most of those phrases. I still use a lot them myself. The only two I hadn't heard before are "gadding around" and "lit." One more that I used to hear a lot was "Well, I'll be dogged," which basically means "I never would have believed it if I hadn't seen it." Hope y'all had a good Christmas, and can't wait to see what next year brings for y'all!

  • @EllieBeee
    @EllieBeee 5 місяців тому +6

    😂😂 I'm just plum foolish about this family!! ❤ this was wonderful! 👍

  • @TracyfromNC
    @TracyfromNC 5 місяців тому +3

    I say most of these phrases but it really tickles folks when I say, I ain't done a blessed ( bless-ed) thing today. And gob is a real description of measurement!

  • @angelawalker1075
    @angelawalker1075 5 місяців тому +11

    I grew up in the rural south, a little place called Wyatt, LA. I have used and I have heard others use these words and phrases on a regular basis, most of my life, all of which were common in our daily conversations. I've always been a bit of a logophile, and just love when you do these.

  • @bluebird218bn
    @bluebird218bn 5 місяців тому +7

    I say all but a couple of these. I’ve always wondered how come we say “how come” instead of just “why.” 😊

    • @CelebratingAppalachia
      @CelebratingAppalachia  5 місяців тому +2

      😊

    • @mamamode1312
      @mamamode1312 5 місяців тому

      @@CelebratingAppalachia i figure its short for how did that come to be
      How come
      A deeper why
      Like
      Looking for the cause of it
      Often why get just 'cause.
      Or
      Maybe why but not the process that brought it forth.
      So, how come

  • @collins5038
    @collins5038 5 місяців тому +7

    I have to admit I use many of these words. Loved the Bloopers!

  • @SuzieQ-lw2kp
    @SuzieQ-lw2kp 5 місяців тому +5

    I love hearing these sayings because i use every one of them still. growing up this is what I was use to hearing my momma say daily most in my county still talk like this here in KY. Love the bloopers ❤

  • @texasfarmgirl1511
    @texasfarmgirl1511 5 місяців тому +3

    Dang Tipper, this mountain talk done follered us to Texas. We know and use all these words/phrases right here in southeast Texas. We know and use every one of these except one. That one is "My time".. never heard that one, but all the others we say all the time. All the folks we know also say the same. I wish sometime we could spend a bit talking together and you would see our accents are like yourn. We just call it "country talk".Our folks came to Texas from what we reckon through family research a little after the civil war from N.C., AL, WV, TN. They came west to start a new life. I think some even had a ranch near Ft.Worth. The things that stayed the same were the people, their customs, way of life, speech, and food. We eat the same as you.. simple good food grown in our garden. Love to read, watch, and listen. Sounds familiar, looks familiar, just a bit flatter here.

  • @joycewilson3787
    @joycewilson3787 5 місяців тому +11

    When I hear the sweet old language of Appalachia I feel at home. Thank you all for posting this un. I just love you'uns to pieces!

  • @annierambo5606
    @annierambo5606 5 місяців тому +11

    I'm from Alabama and we use a lot of those sayings. I love it. Wish y'all would do it more. God bless. 🙏❤🙏❤

  • @Needlewich
    @Needlewich 5 місяців тому +3

    Grew up hearing…and using…most of these
    Words and phrases. God bless and much love! 💕🤗🙏🏻🙏🏻

  • @jeremyholland1993
    @jeremyholland1993 5 місяців тому +6

    A lot of this talk is very comparable to Mississippi talk! Lol Mississippians just draw everything out, but still have the same sayings! I love it, and I love your channel.

  • @rebeccas5024
    @rebeccas5024 5 місяців тому +2

    I love how you used one idiom "powerful dare" to define another idiom "double dog dare". Perfect!

  • @holliesheet3182
    @holliesheet3182 5 місяців тому +10

    There is so much pride and delight with sharing these! ☺

  • @elissalee3057
    @elissalee3057 5 місяців тому +4

    I say all those thing's. ❤

  • @eileenmayberry2731
    @eileenmayberry2731 5 місяців тому +2

    My mother was born in Southern Illinois and so was her mother...so it is amazing to me how many of these expressions I grew up using.

  • @charlottehetherington8720
    @charlottehetherington8720 5 місяців тому +6

    That was so fun and the bloopers made it extra special

  • @saner6888
    @saner6888 5 місяців тому +7

    This was fun🙂 I guess I speak like an Appalachian sometimes based on those words 👏👏

  • @robinhaupt9119
    @robinhaupt9119 5 місяців тому +4

    This was fun, thank you Tipper and everyone. I use some of those!

  • @elevensxeggos9364
    @elevensxeggos9364 5 місяців тому +5

    Yall are absolutely wonderful!! Love yalls videos.

  • @nurseamber4180
    @nurseamber4180 5 місяців тому +6

    These are great! I know most of them since I’m from NC….but fall out is a pretty universal term in the medical field. It’s mostly used in the past tense….for example, a patient done fell out, or DFO’d. 😂

  • @brendaschenck859
    @brendaschenck859 5 місяців тому +4

    Funny, it felt good to laugh 😂😂 I use almost all of these…but…I’ve heard heard of a hog sucker fish, until your video earlier in the summer when you told about working in the fish market!

  • @Mr._Anderpson
    @Mr._Anderpson 5 місяців тому +4

    These sound like normal conversation to me, but I'm a West Virginian. Here's a few more.
    Powerful - (pronounced parr-ful) -- it means great or extreme. I've got a powerful hankering for deer jerky.
    Poke - A bag. We dug up the taters & put 'em in a poke. Had two of 'em slap full.
    This last one is a phrase. My grandmother called my oldest sister a bad cook by saying, "That girl could scorch water."

  • @lindamcgee3651
    @lindamcgee3651 5 місяців тому +2

    Praying and Blessed! 🤗🙏💕

  • @livvyweimar7362
    @livvyweimar7362 5 місяців тому +4

    Some of these I would have no idea what you were saying. Thanks for sharing your idioms with us ❤

  • @karensweet6530
    @karensweet6530 5 місяців тому +4

    That's the way I talk all the time! I reckon it's how I was reared to talk! It's normal to me to hear people speak using these words! Thank you Tipper, Matt, Corie and Katie! Did you hear its posed to Snow a lil? Tipper, I shore hope you do see some even if it's a lil bit... Happy New Year to Y'all... God Bless 🙏🙏❤❤🎄🎄🍭🍭

  • @KathysTube
    @KathysTube 5 місяців тому +3

    I knew them all but hog sucker, but I'm guessing it's a carp 🤔
    Thanks for the vocabulary review ☺️👍

    • @DWeezy62
      @DWeezy62 5 місяців тому

      Northern Hog Sucker
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_hogsucker
      We use these as live or cutbait to catch Flathead and Channel Catfish here in Ohio.

  • @jackieellenbarnes1268
    @jackieellenbarnes1268 5 місяців тому +3

    A lot of these I know but not all.
    Love your Bloopers 😅

  • @jamiedolen3182
    @jamiedolen3182 5 місяців тому +3

    This is my everyday way i talk.
    I loved this short lil video of y'all.❤️
    Y'all feel like distant family to me, our lifestyles and talk are so similar. 💓🙏

  • @mitchmatthews6713
    @mitchmatthews6713 5 місяців тому +3

    Music to my ears! Stay safe, y'all!

  • @osmadchlo
    @osmadchlo 5 місяців тому +1

    The only one I haven't heard or said is "help my time". That was a new one for me. ❤

  • @Jean-ko4xv
    @Jean-ko4xv 5 місяців тому +2

    I sure enjoy those old time sayings, thanks for keeping them alive.God bless.💕 &🙏🙏 For Granny. Jean

  • @littlebird585
    @littlebird585 5 місяців тому +1

    I remember my Grandma, Papa, and family using most of these terms. I find that I still do. My grandchildren get a giggle out of some of my 'terms'.

  • @garybrunet6346
    @garybrunet6346 5 місяців тому +3

    Thanks Tipper, I love the language videos. They are so rich!❤️🇨🇦🙏

  • @sherrieburgess7494
    @sherrieburgess7494 5 місяців тому +1

    I'm glad to know I've been speaking like an Appalachian all my life here in North Texas. Guess I'd fit right in!

  • @robinchanteusedylan8326
    @robinchanteusedylan8326 5 місяців тому +4

    Heard most of these growing up, thanks for using them in sentences like you did in this video. The bloopers are so funny! 😃

  • @lynnhutto7671
    @lynnhutto7671 5 місяців тому +2

    The Bloopers are priceless! Got me laughing already this morning 😊

  • @debbieepperly3821
    @debbieepperly3821 5 місяців тому +4

    I loved these! I still say so many of these! Y'all had me grinning from ear to ear!! I haven't felt well since Christmas so haven't been able to visit hubby last 2 days!! Y'all just don't know how much better I feel now!! Thanks to all the family! I especially got tickled at the bloopers! God bless y'all! Love from VA!

  • @user-ef2se7hs2b
    @user-ef2se7hs2b 5 місяців тому +3

    It was so hot... I like to've fell out!... I'm just adding another.
    In our family we literally use all these words and phrases... 👍🏻😊

  • @lindareinking5326
    @lindareinking5326 5 місяців тому +3

    Love these mountain talk videos❤❤

  • @user-zw9zw8eu7v
    @user-zw9zw8eu7v 5 місяців тому

    I’m originally from the city of Richmond VA. I married my husband while we were stationed in AZ. He’s from Kingsport TN. I had to have him translate a lot of what was said when we visited his family because I had never heard people talk like that 😂🤷‍♀️ watching this video helped me. I love the bloopers ! Thank you.

  • @kimberlylyerly2207
    @kimberlylyerly2207 5 місяців тому +2

    I just love ya'll explaining country-talk. ❤

  • @jadeblues357
    @jadeblues357 5 місяців тому +4

    That’s a bit strange and I’ll double dog dare is very popular in upstate New York😊

    • @CelebratingAppalachia
      @CelebratingAppalachia  5 місяців тому +1

      Thank you for watching!!

    • @isthatallthereis7541
      @isthatallthereis7541 5 місяців тому +1

      Our beautiful Appalachian Mountains have long been a wonderful pathway for many of the finest people to find the place of their heart's calling for home, from the great South, all the way up to the northern most part of the Appalachian trail. And the blood of same unites our spirits, let there be no doubt.

  • @ls7196
    @ls7196 5 місяців тому +3

    Evening, Miss Tipper, made it on time.

  • @christinej2358
    @christinej2358 5 місяців тому

    I love the bloopers, not just because they’re funny, but it also show the finished video took a lot of work trying to get it how you wanted it. Plus it shows how much fun y’all have while making them. I know the editing part, can’t be fun, but very rewarding once it’s finished. Thank y’all for all to provide great content!

  • @BlessingsfromNorthIdaho
    @BlessingsfromNorthIdaho 5 місяців тому +2

    lol, the very first one is the only one I wasn’t familiar with. I’m with Matt on the eggs and butter.😂. TeresaSue

  • @jeanmooreboykin4250
    @jeanmooreboykin4250 5 місяців тому +1

    Love it, Love it, Love it!!!!! Sounds like home sweet home!!!!! ❤❤❤
    I've heard most of these in eastern NC, growing up. Only we didn't say, "Help my time." We said, "Help my life."

    • @debluetailfly
      @debluetailfly 5 місяців тому +1

      A guy I knew in the Ozarks said "Well, slap my jaw!"

  • @ginamaria2579
    @ginamaria2579 5 місяців тому +2

    That was so much fun. Recognize some a those ☺️💕

  • @user-ph4ke5wz1p
    @user-ph4ke5wz1p 5 місяців тому

    I just love listening to these, y'alls voices it remind me of the cadences of my youth. I've heard and still use most of these. Things like, "he's as crazy as an outhouse rat" and "he was grinning like a possum eatin' manure" Every time I hear you rehearsing these I remember more...wonderful.
    Thank You

  • @kennethdean2417
    @kennethdean2417 5 місяців тому

    I could never believe Corie and Katie were Heathens when they were younger
    Both are so adorable ❤😊

  • @cds1848
    @cds1848 5 місяців тому +1

    So many of these terms migrated to southern Ohio and Indiana! I grew up in East Central Indiana...but, familiar with so many of these!

  • @joanndeland7969
    @joanndeland7969 5 місяців тому +1

    My husband always says " lf it would of been a snake, it would have bit me " When he was looking for his grasses 😊

  • @tecora7419
    @tecora7419 5 місяців тому +3

    So many of these sayins reminds me of my Daddy

  • @barbaradavis393
    @barbaradavis393 4 місяці тому

    I grew up near Pittsburgh and it is amazing how many of these terms are so familiar. My dad was always using the "If it was a snake...." term, which is funny because he grew up on the New York-Canadian border. I guess great sayings are universal.

  • @paulws58
    @paulws58 5 місяців тому +2

    I always enjoy the bloopers.

  • @homesteadingpastor
    @homesteadingpastor 5 місяців тому +2

    Enjoyed watching! We probably use or have heard 95% of these. Thanks for sharing with us. 😇🙌🏻❤️🙏🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @blanton1624
    @blanton1624 5 місяців тому +2

    Funny stuff. These aren't just Appalachian sayings. My family talks like that in Texas! 🤣

  • @phyllispitts6656
    @phyllispitts6656 5 місяців тому +3

    I’m familiar with a lot of these sayings!

  • @crystalshell3253
    @crystalshell3253 5 місяців тому

    We use a lot of those sayings in Kentucky also. Brought back so many memories of some of them as a child. Kids nowadays have no clue if you use those words now. Lol

  • @ablelock
    @ablelock 5 місяців тому +1

    I think I have as much fun watching the bloopers as I do watching the words that you guys are saying it really makes me laugh you put a big smile on my face 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @PepperplacewithShawna
    @PepperplacewithShawna 5 місяців тому +1

    Bloopers are so funny! Great video!❤

  • @RickandPenny
    @RickandPenny 5 місяців тому +3

    Alot of those sayings is southern says in Mississippi. But Dad was from around Clinton TN and he said we ens and you ens. Here we say Yall. After living in Canada for 3 or 4 years I actually told guests leaving yall coke back now, eeh. Lol didn't know I said it they hugged me and said I was Canadian now. Lol

  • @Chooge
    @Chooge 5 місяців тому +4

    I have used at least two thirds of these.

  • @reneefahner3486
    @reneefahner3486 5 місяців тому

    According to Matt’s own stories .. HE was the heathen as a child . lol Love y’all ! 🥰

  • @gloriamcbroom8251
    @gloriamcbroom8251 5 місяців тому

    I live in central Oklahoma…..most of my kin are from the hills of Arkansas….I talk just like y’all…..
    Co-workers used to write down things I said….and laugh ! I sure love y’all….

  • @cathyking8013
    @cathyking8013 5 місяців тому +1

    oh my, this was so much fun. i can't believe how many of your sayin's were mine too growing up in Wake County, NC. amazing.

  • @M2ElviSMuSic
    @M2ElviSMuSic 4 місяці тому

    About the third one in, I thought "oh, I so hope they do bloopers from this!" And you did! THANK YOU!😂 Please do more of these. They lifted me up so.❤

  • @loriwilkeson1077
    @loriwilkeson1077 5 місяців тому +2

    I talk like this all the time! 🤣😂

  • @Alicia-pr7gr
    @Alicia-pr7gr 5 місяців тому +1

    I grew up talking like this in Kentucky. Normal talk in my family 😂

  • @Hi-xn5ph
    @Hi-xn5ph 5 місяців тому +1

    I have heard so many of these and actually said so many😂😂I’m from Georgia

  • @Me2Lancer
    @Me2Lancer 4 місяці тому

    I live in north Texas and have lived here most of my life. The expressions you shared are common here as well.

  • @bethgiesey9405
    @bethgiesey9405 5 місяців тому

    I'm from Ohio & my family used these words & phrases alot. My grandson used to say to me, "Grandma, say some of those words for me". He got a kick out of them

  • @sharonshelton8494
    @sharonshelton8494 5 місяців тому +1

    Just enjoy gaddying about with y'all. Happy New Year 🙋🏻❤️🌠

  • @lord1557
    @lord1557 5 місяців тому +1

    This is wonderful. 90% of this is common to my ear. Central KY, but eastern KY ancestors, Extreme western KY and Iowa, but somehow the language comes through. That hawk lit on that branch, How come you to do that, , natural voice for me. My wife from central Indiana, not so much, but she acquired an accent in Memphis and here folks were county Indiana.

    • @sonyafox3271
      @sonyafox3271 5 місяців тому +2

      Just about anywhere you go in Kentucky! Mostly, South Eastern Indiana and,South Western Ohio, but,in South Eastern Indiana was part of the South and, back in the 30s to 40s around the time my mom was a child and growing up! There are some places out in Ohio that are pretty far out and, different regions that are still considered as part of the Appalachian Culture today!

  • @miaokuancha2447
    @miaokuancha2447 5 місяців тому +1

    If it'd been a snake it would have bit me. That was a great one. Especially because I always lose my glasses exactly like that!

  • @pvjohnson52
    @pvjohnson52 5 місяців тому +2

    Y’all crack me up😊😊

  • @lelathompson5989
    @lelathompson5989 5 місяців тому +3

    Always enjoy your videos.

  • @CGholl
    @CGholl 5 місяців тому

    I’m born and raised in Northern California and know these. I believe I heard them all from my grandparents who were not from California

  • @sunandthamoon
    @sunandthamoon 5 місяців тому +1

    We speak this way in NC.

  • @edwardroland5301
    @edwardroland5301 5 місяців тому +1

    I’m from Tennessee and I speak Appalachian.

  • @brendaleach-kv7if
    @brendaleach-kv7if 5 місяців тому +1

    Well I swan bloopers are hilarious!

  • @carlking8530
    @carlking8530 5 місяців тому +1

    Back when my daddy was still living, when he was going to bed, he'd say, I think I'll fly up , you know like chickens and turkeys do when they're going to sleep. He'd also tell me that I was meaner than a sore tail cat.

  • @AmericanGal_69
    @AmericanGal_69 5 місяців тому

    I understood and use those. My cousins in NY always used to love when I came up in the summer as a youngin cause I'm their Southern Belle Cousin 😂

  • @rickybearden4575
    @rickybearden4575 5 місяців тому +1

    that fish your talking about is a carp we called them a bugle mouth bass 😂😂😂😂😂