Appalachian English
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- Excerpt on Appalachian English from the documentary film Mountain Talk.
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ABOUT MOUNTAIN TALK
The people of Southern Appalachia tell the story of their diverse mountain culture and dialect in this popular film. Featuring Popcorn Sutton, Mary Jane Queen, Orville Hicks, Jim Tom Hedrick and many others, with back-porch music performed by Henry Queen, Mary Jane Queen, Gilford Williams, Rufe Sutton, Leon Wells and many others. Narrated by award-winning playwright and author Gary Carden.
Film by NEAL HUTCHESON
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Executive Producer WALT WOLFRAM
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“Yeah I like mah mopeds.” Doesn’t say another word and rides off
Goals
That’s enough convo for a month...
Lol
Lmfao
That’s how it is bubba. Straight and to the point.
it's like if your grandpa was an entire town.
This is the most underappreciated comment in modern history.
This is my entire family.
I was gonna say, this video reminded me so much of my grandma, I'm from & still live in Lexington North Carolina which is close to the NC Foothills, so I still do hear some of this dialect, but it really is dying out as the world becomes more modernized
So accurate. My West Virginian grandfather has a THICK Appalachian accent.
too funny and true!
"Ya, I like my moped" has the greatest and most unexpected delivery that comes out of nowhere.
Sounds 100% like Hanks father
Being Ulster Scots myself, it is astonishing how many of our phrases and mannerisms are still present within their culture. Tweak the accent and they could easily fit in here at a country pub. It always infuriates me at how often these folks are portrayed as moronic psychos in TV and film. They're good people who have been long forgotten by those people who wish to lift up the oppressed.
It's because most of the people up in the Appalachians were from Ulster Scot ancestry. I know my family was. But these days, they are less and less common, due to mass migration from up north and Latin America. it's a shame really.
@@etherashe5164 I remember as a kid the only Latinos I ever saw were working maintenance in the mall way out in Knoxville, and now they're everywhere. And it doesn't matter how far in the country you go chances are the little country store is owned and operated by Indians. Don't get me wrong I love our new inhabitants because they're hard working, family oriented people, but things sure are changing around here for sure.
My grandma is from the hill country and they were welsh, miners in Wales, miners in Appalachia, so much of the talk is the same. When my friend Jane gets drunk and goes off in welsh you can hear where my grandmas town got it from.
funny you say that because Appalachian English can be traced back to Scottish and Irish who settles the Appalachian back country
@@etherashe5164 they also spread out from the Appalachians over time to the Rockies and the cascades and California. I’ve got scotch Irish on my paternal side from Southern California and on my maternal side are from south Alabama. All can be traced at one point in the appalachians. Some stayed and others ventured south and West eventually.
"YEA I LIKE MY MOPED!"
*BLAZES OFF INTO THE DISTANCE*
kodak green his name is Jim tom lol
I didn't understand the point of that scene lol. The sentence he said is the same as standard English. Are they trying to say mopeds are an Appalachian thing?
美丹瑠衣 don’t take everything literal ❤️
i used to live in western nc. i worked with a guy who rode a moped to work because he had gotten so many dui's
@@stussels a lot of states require full licenses to ride them, but the stereotype still lives on. Love my moped, gets great gas mileage! lol
Me watching this at 2am during midterms: my life’s si-gogglin
Plumb si-gogglin
Paper bag done plumb si goggllin
Youll forget midterms but remember this
That's the best joke I've heard in weeks
In Scotland we say shooglin for something wobbly or not straight and also say poke. Thinks these may come from the Scots.
I can’t believe Popcorn Sutton was in this. He’s an Appalachian legend.
Hahaha I know, as soon as it showed him I was like wait isn't that that moonshiners popcorn Sutton?
I was looking for this comment 👌
I didn't realize he wasn't actually well known.
Which guy is it
Yeah...like hot dog sammy in Chicago?
Or more like shit eating Benny in Stateville??
My dad talks in deep Appalachian English and has a slight speech impediment. My uncle up in Vermont has a deep northern accent with a slight speech impediment. I had to act as a translator between the two because they could not understand each other at all! It was like two completely different languages that I actually understood!
CZcams why did you wait over a decade to recommend this to me, it's so wholesome.
I found this while searching for different American accents a year or two ago and was just thinking about it a couple of days ago. I wonder why it's suddenly getting recommended to everyone, too.
Same
@@TiberianFiend people on the inside of the algorithm trying to do good work I guess.
People will not understand mountain people of the great smoky mountains. Even americans dont know mountain talk.
@@TiberianFiend sees awe wa
It's so strange, I'm northern irish and I can honestly hear my accent within their language, so cool
I feel the same listening to Irish accents, and I'm from Appalachia. Just feels familiar!
Well a lot of Irish folk wound up settling in Appalachia few hundred years ago. It’s actually why there’s so much overlap between Bluegrass and older Celtic folk music. I’d assume that the accents haven’t changed too much since they don’t tend to leave their towns/region.
@@Red0991 Scots-Irish, Scottish, Irish Protestant and some German and Dutch immigrants settled Appalachia in the first half of the 18th century. The particular articulation of the mountain folk was a result of the mixing of different dialects, with some Gaelic and a touch of German and Dutch, coupled with local developments.
That’s awesome. I’m from Appalachia and I have an Irish last name.
Same, you can definitely hear the Ulster in this
There's a certain rhythm to their speech that's just so much fun to listen to. You couldn't listen to some standard American speaking news anchor all day, but you could listen to these folk all day and be better for it
Bless those humble people.
*Prejudiced People
@@ethandollarhide7943 You sound pretty prejudice yourself...
@@ethandollarhide7943found the clown ! How you doing bud? How’s your wife’s boyfriend doing ?
@@muskateer12345 How's your Sister that's also your wife doing ya H*ck.
I was in the Iraq War with a Marine from West Virginia. He talked just like them in the video. He was one of the craziest, funniest and coolest guys I knew.
Not to intrude, but my dad was a marine, later in the National Guard, in the Iraq War from WV haha
Thank you for your service.
Can you tell us some stories of what he'd get up to? :)
What was his favorite flavor crayon?
how many people you killed?
“You’ll get knocked in the head!”
*”Well, if I do, I’m just knocked.”*
And you can still hear that 'twang' today wherever they later made their way across the country , thru Missouri and the Ozarks, to Oklahoma and Texarkana, and out west along Route 66 to Arizona, Central Cali and Bakersfield, following the Great Depression.
Everyone got knocked in my hometown. They got knocked up.
@@mingonmongo1 I'm from Missouri and I can definitely get that accent
@@jamesthefisherman1060 😂😂😂🤰🤰🤰🤱🤱
I'm from Serbia, but I respect these people very much. I've always liked the Southerners of America, I hope to visit one day. Their accent is very nice, even if I have trouble understanding sometimes :)
But Southerners aren't Serbian. You won't feel comfortable around them. Remember?
@Ethan Dollarhide Alot of Serbians fought during the Civil War in the Confederacy. Serbian culture and people have a big footprint in the south
@@DrazCo88 😅😅😅😅 koja si ti budaletina
Appalachians arent really "southerners", yeah they technically start in Tennessee (some people would even say as far south as alabama) but it ends all the way up in the Adirondacks in NY through the PA Alleghany mountains, these mountain people are culturally different from southerners, northereasterners, and midwesterners.
Culturally the people from Appalachia have a lot more in common with each other (even if the weather in west virginia and PA is different than the smoky mountains) than they would with their surrounding neighbors. They all shared being the "losers" in the eastern states that got stuck with shitty unfarmable land.
c’mon down, you’ll be welcomed
Born, raised and live in a small mountain town in Western NC that borders East Tennessee.
I’m glad to say that mountain speak is alive and well with much of our young’ns today. There seems to be a resurgence of local pride in our old traditions.
As a professional business man who works all over the east coast I often have to check my word usage so that people understand me, but I can’t hide nor do I try to hide my accent. Ain’t gonna do it!
Well I got news for you: Your Culture and Language is rapidly dying. More and more people including the Young'ns are rejecting it because of how Prejudiced it is towards minority groups and how Theocratic it is. As someone that grew up in Appalachia, I have zero issues with the pathetic culture dying. Good Riddance.
Black mountain?
Nope, Burnsville. Evan smaller than Black Mnt! 😂
@@charlieautrey2854shit. Small... Shiiiiiit I Grew up around Lake Toxaway, North Carolina. Burnsville might as well be Asheville.
Why am I both laughing and crying? Every time I hear "peckerwood," "you'll git hit in the head," "sodey pop," and "plum," I think of my Kentucky born and bred parents. I miss hearing those accents. Think I'll go warsh my face now.
therainman777 My dad’s from Indiana, highly educated, and he says warsh
@therainman777 Well, Pittsburgh is the biggest city in the Appalachian range. “Yinz” (=‘“you’uns”) is heard not only in the Steel City, but also in Boone and Linville, NC.
Joyce Ridner My mother grew up in Canton, OH, but she passed on to her kids the “warsh rag” and “torlet”. From what I’ve been told, some of her people were from Marietta. It wasn’t easy kicking that habit when I grew up and left home; finding out the hard way that those pronunciations were wrong! 😁
@@theresareineke6753 We warsh our clothes in warter in Cincinnati. We're also Appalachia-adjacent.
@therainman777 My grandmother who was born and raised here in Texas says it too. My grandfather who was from Arkansas would say "Wrasslin" for Wrestling, which he watched until his death in 2012. Another saying he would have is "I have no earthly idee". Idee is how a lot of UK people say "Idea".
My grandfather was a mountain man. He was a black hillbilly and he spoke just like this. Whenever he'd be pissed off, he'd shout, "Jiminy Cricket!" Jiminy was pronounced like Gem-my-knee.
That sounds incredible
That is fantastic. So "real" with a genuine feel it seems. You are blessed to have come from that lineage.
I grew up saying that... got it from my grandma. She was from North Dakota but lived in California from early 1920s to late '80s.
I bet he was a great character :)
😍
I grew up in northwest Georgia and lived here my whole life. When I was a kid, this is how all the older folks around me spoke. Grandparents, old people at church, football coaches etc. Now that I'm older, and many of them have passed on, this way of speaking is all but gone with them. It makes me sad sometimes. Listening to this video is very nostalgic for me, and calming also.
Yep nowadays you only hear that kind of talking from people 50 years old and up. I grew up in Dalton where are you from?
I grew up in the foothills of North Carolina and my family was from the mountains. I moved away 40 years ago and go back for visits. This sounds like home.
@solarflair2605 I'm from Dalton too lmao. Well, tunnel hill. Moved to Seattle this summer. It's currently 345 am, and watching this feels like listening to my grandparents talk
I have been extremely fortunate to travel and experience rural Tennessee, NC, and Virginia during the past thirty years. The people there are truly the salt of the Earth. When I return home to the Northwest I always miss the warm-hearted folks down there and their wholesome way of life.
Warm-hearted 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@chainsoar It's not "salting the earth", it's salt of the earth. Salt, back in the day, was so valuable it was used as currency. That's where that phrase comes from.
As a Scot , I recognise some of the words and expressions. We call a small bag a “poke”. We say “yonder” too.
Oh yeah, there’s the music too, that’s pretty closely related to Scottish/Irish folk music, although I think bluegrass takes it to another level, big fan here.
Very interesting. The word "poke" is most likely related to the Icelandic word "poki" which means a small or medium sized bag, plastic bag for example.
Most of these Appalachian mountain folks can trace their heritage to Scotland and Northern England.
@@hugsun5918 vikings I assume
I'm from Tennessee and we have rich Scottish heritage. Till this day very similar cultures
poke (n.1)
"small sack," early 13c., probably from a merger of Old English pohha (Northumbrian poha, pocca) "bag, pocket" and Old Norse poki "bag, pouch, pocket," influenced by Old North French poque (12c., Old French poche) "purse, poke, purse-net," which is probably from Germanic. All of them probably are from Proto-Germanic *puk- (source also of Middle Dutch poke, dialectal German Pfoch), from PIE root *beu-, an imitative root associated with words for "to swell" (see bull (n.2)). Compare pocket.
My dad went to college at Tennessee State university back in the 60's during the civil rights movements and sit ins. and he told me that any time he would be walking back to campus from town and a Appalachian person would drive by they would always offer him a ride. My dad said that these mountain people ain't see you for what color you were but for how good of a person you were instead.
That is too sweet ❤️ I’m a native of the Appalachian region in NC and I agree anybodyll do anything for ya ❤️
Adam Bruce...you make an important point, from a historical perspective. The reason we have West Virginia is because the mountain folk rebelled against the racial excesses of eastern Virginians and remained loyal to the Union. They were not defenders of slavery.
What the Bible refers to as the love of God shed abroad in our hearts.
Yup. That's cause everybody was poor together. Same with a bunch of other rural areas in Tennessee. Poor don't see no skin color. My mom would tell of an old black woman that would holler at her and my aunt when they walked home from school to come see "black Mammy" so she could feed 'em cookies or a little bit of cake; that was about the only sweets they ever got because my grandma was a widow trying to raise 5 kids and living out of an old sheep shed.
I believe sugar was expensive then, and few care to remember life before Walk Mart, nor what true poverty is. My parents was raised without electricity, more so on my mother's side of the family. Just because it had been invented didn't mean everyone had it. Cleveland TN back then was so far out, that there were few stores, and everyone worked their selves to death, canning vvfood that they raised. If hard times were to come again, there are only a few of us that know how to pull through. These young kids know nothing of how to raise a garden, home can food, nor any real life skills. And yes, skin color was not a factor, indeed everyone was poor. Like all towns, a very few was the rich, but very, very few. I remember the early 1970's in east TN, where an out house was still seen, as it was in my life time.
I travel for my work and came from Oregon to Appalachia. It took me a second to understand their English. They're the nicest people. Very polite and helpful.
They are the most Prejudiced people in the United States
@@ethandollarhide7943 i think you are just trying to get a rise out of people
@@SpoonsOG Yeah, by telling the Truth about how this place really is.
@@SpoonsOG Doesn't take much to make people of the South Mad: Just don't follow Christianity and they'll treat you like a monster.
Maybe is because I am the guy who brings Internet to them. Everybody loves that guy. I met more rude people inside Raleigh, than in those plains. Just my experience.
My girlfriend is in NC and me being from the UK I love going over and hearing "Old English" and creative English being used. It's a wonderful thing to hear and each word has almost onamatapoeaic purpose
Legend says that the pages of the book are still being turned by the wind up to this day folks!
Dass juss Gawd turnin' it te the right page
He doesn't read he just likes to look like he can
😂👍
Hahahahaha good one!!!!
@@mitchconner2021 🤭
I used to hate the idea of having an accent like that always made me feel dumb, so being young with the rise of the internet and intentionaly trying to not speak with an accent has made my appalachian accent very mild, but now in my 20s I'm glad i have it, makes me feel unique now
I was always told that having an accent makes you sound “uneducated”. To anyone reading this, accents are something so unique and special. Never change how you speak for anyone, you are NOT stupid for talking differently than per say someone in Los Angeles. From, someone who has almost lost their accent from rude people. Now I just stick to code switching haha
Don’t go changing now
@@amyjeslynn6825 Hello Amy in my view everybody has an accent it just depends where you come from , I suppose.
It is also the choice of words and how many of these one uses in everyday speech. Cheers Amy!
I’m at fort benning and they rest of my platoon pokes fun at me for my accent WNC Cherokee county
Same
i've lived in kentucky my entire life and this semester in college i'm taking asl, which is taught by a woman from appalachia. her accent is almost identical to the one in the very beginning. i love listening to her talk and hearing how close it sounds to an irish accent sometimes.
My family was from west Maryland/Appalachia WV. They are all dead now but hearing these folks talk is like hearing my mom and my aunt naenae talk to me again. It’s very comforting.
Same here, Garrett County/Preston County area. The accents took me back. I could hear the southern sounds in the "ah"s, but remarkably close.
That first guy is "Popcorn" Sutton, arguably the grandfather of American moonshiners
Rest in peace
Don't forget Jim Tom. I haven't seen him on this season's Episode, I hope he's still with us
Yeah he said “Fuck you.”
“Popcorn says fuck you”
Man was a legend. R.I.P.
his legend will live on
Wouldn’t say he is the “grandfather” of shiners, been plenty before him
As an 82 year old Spartanburg County SC native who tried to speak what I call 'broadcasters' standard' English during my working years, I find in retirement that I am slipping back into my milk tongue, which is hillbilly. My grandparents used most all of the words you presented in this video. Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
Amazing place. Very nice
If i'm remembering right, I think it's transatlantic, the dialect and accent together that they'd use on radio and television then. I'm about 20, grew up right outside PA Appalachia depending on which way you drive, and I grew up with a lot of these, just with a broad US accent. Interesting and nice to see languages travel and are preserved across so many years.
Man said milk tongue, I can read his accent
Oconnee native myself and I feel this as well.
Spartanburg Native here, still miss home. But at least Ten. aint too bad. But im stuck in suburban heck. So i still miss the woods and pines. Makes me itchy under the skin.
It's amazing how you can travel just a couple hours southeast from Cleveland to the foothills of Appalachia and you'd think you set foot in the deep south with the accent people have.
I am from the UK and worked in Eastern Kentucky and met many mountain people. I understand their language and love it. They are generous, friendly and people with a great sense of kinship - living in many beautiful locations too where Nature dictates the day. …. They do great clog dancing as well 👏🙂
Eastern Kentucky is one of the most Prejudiced places in the country. Stop spreading lies.
The powers that be will make it so even they will have diversity foisted upon them. It’s tragic.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 No, I'm still trapped here and these h*cks are making sure that only Christians are allowed to live here.
You just gotta remember there's a big difference between the Northern mountains and the southern mountain dialects. This is the southern Appalachian.
this!
Yeah, I'm from north of these areas, but currently live south of them. I don't have any need for the subtitles, but they's a few terms I hadn't heard.
Very true
It is a lot like Arkansas, but not quite. The drawl is a little different, maybe stronger? Here in Arkansas I’d say there’s a little more twang. Hard to put a finger on it.
Born and raised northern mountain, but moved to Canada and this is comforting to hear like an off-brand Dr. Pepper - incredibly familiar with some slight differences.
These Canadian folks can't understand when I say "oil" or "roof", god forbid I start trying to give directions. I had someone rudely interrupt me mid-sentence and snap, "I can't understand you! What are you trying to say?!" All I replied with was, "Well, nothing now. Jeeze louise, no need to be *that* rude."
Im a Latino and I’ve visited West Virginian rural towns. I was shocked to see how friendly and respectful everyone was. My respects to these humble people
All the Latinos I’ve met passin through or moved for work, have been great as well! As a West Virginian I appreciate that comment! People think just cause ya have a talk, it makes ya stupid. That’s just not the case. Some of the best innovators I’ve ever known!
My husband is also Latino and was very surprised by the culture and kindness of appalachia 💕 I'm glad you had a good experience and enjoyed your time!!
Exactly. Them being represented as racist is just a media stereotype.
It's a hard thing man, you guys get scapegoated by the media. It's easy to hate an idea, but the people in the south don't hate anyone if they aren't fake. I've known people growing up who would hate latinos and black people, but their best friends would be black and latino. Ignorance isn't an excuse, and you shouldn't have to do this, but anyone who comes to the south, just talk to them. Show them who you really are and their minds will change in a heartbeat. Just know we all don't hate you, but the false idea the media portrays, we're all people at the end of it.
I would think that Hispanics should be the very image of Spanish courtly gentility. English and other British Isles medieval chivalry -- and lower classes' attempt to rise to that standard -- is from where Appalachian courtesy derives.
I grew up in the southern tip of the Appalachians in AL. Surprised to hear how similar these people talk to my own grandparents and the other elders of my mountain community. It's like visiting home ❤️
My family comes from the Piedmont of NC and these folks remind me so much of my great-grandmother's generation that I got to know as a small child in the late 70s to the early 80s. This was a lovely step back in time for me, I'm so glad these voices are being recorded and will be remembered!
Being from a long line of mountain folk, I understood every word every phrase. Makes me miss my Grandma who had some of the most colorful phrases that I can't repeat on CZcams
My pawpaw too. He was born in a holler and everything he ever said had me giggling when I was little. He used to tell me he was gonna learn me this or that, and if we got too rowdy he would say "hash up now or im gonna learn ya how to" 😂 The last few years of his life i cared for him i picked it up A LOT i love it 🥰
Im guessing her phrases had racial undertones?
@@sugarray1378well since you're guessing, I bet cash money on your guessing my grandma was white person too.
Sending love
I too come from a long line of mountain folk.
"You wouldn't put it in a "paper bag" you would put it in a "paper poke""
Wow, we say "poke" here in Scotland too.
Bouncin' Betty most of those in the SE mountain range, and the SE US in general (GA, SC, NC, TN), are from ancestors from Scotland, Ireland, and England. Some of the very, very early hymns from my religion (Protestant Baptist) sound like Gregorian chants. And have you ever noticed just how similar clogging is to Irish dance? That is no coincidence. ❤️
@@mcbeeze West Virginia as well. My ancestor, Richard Tennant, came from Glascow & fought in French & Indian War and Revolution.
High class Of England populated the South and the Scots migrated to the mountains
Bouncin' Betty these people are descended from Scots,,Irish. And Ulster scotch Irish. No surprise there. My dad is one of them, from west Virginia, and all I see in his ancestry is English, Irish, Ulster, Welsh. These people are speaking in a way that was handed down from their ancestors
Yes, poke is used through-out the English isles to mean bag. It's actual origin is the french word for 'bag'.. poque (also the origin of 'pocket', or 'poquet' meaning 'small bag') .
I grew up near the borders of KY, TN, and WV, along the Clinch River, in Wise County VA. This is the most familiar accent I know. Wouldn't trade my childhood in the Appalachian mountains for a childhood anywhere else.
i grew up in bowling green kentucky, close enough to encounter a lot of people who talk like this and i find it extremely endearing this whole video makes me smile :-)
0:41 My man was speed reading that book backwards while holding a conversation without looking at the book once!
What an absolute power move!
That is HILAAARIOOOUSSS
funniest comment
Best comment 😂
In Western Kentucky where I grew up, plenty of people talked just like these people. I feel like I know them just listening to them talk.
Eastern Kentuckyian here, It’s interesting to hear people talk like
Yep I’m here in western Ky and lots speak just like this. My grandparents and their siblings ALL talked like this❤️
@watergod 83 yeah it is, I'm eastern kentuckian myself but there's a good subset of ppl in western KY with a strong appalachian accent, at least from my experience.
Now I am in no way living where everyone has this accent, but even living in Northwest Kentucky I can understand them.
I went to Harlan to visit my family once and realized even black folk talked like this down there. That kinda freaked me out
I spent much of my youth in Kentucky, also up and down both sides of the Ohio River valley. My current sojourn in NYC (now 4 years?) has me missing these beautiful and warm accents. Thank you for the video. It's a comfort to revisit.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
I'm a Floridian (native) but I spent a good chunk of my life in the Ozarks. The dialect and accent were different but it was equally as diverse from your "standard" American English. It took me a little over a year to be able to understand the people there fluently.
Native? Someone should tell you
These kinds of people are in their own time and age, and honestly they should stay that way. They seem very happy and content.
We want to be left alone, trust me. However, the rest of the country wont let us be. Somehow we became the country's worst enemy.
@@tieneeddoawestruck2036 Thats truly awful to hear :(
@@tieneeddoawestruck2036 what?
Never heard of that
I don't hate any Appalachian people
I've never met any and that'd make no sense to hate someone like that
@concernedamerican no money down there anymore, if you are retired and have plenty of money, sure its great, but I will never want to raise my kid in that sheltered hateful area ever again. I grew up deep in a holler, and there is so much discrimination and hatred, too many drugs and too many drunks
Ashley Hall well you knew some bad people
Them folk were the first to fight and die for labor rights in the US, god bless em.
@@tbs625 Like hell we didn't. We've got a long way to go, but we're not getting assassinated by companies for organizing strikes and unions anymore.
Aren't they the ones who gave us the word "redneck" for the red bandanas the workers wore around their necks? I say that as a word of pride being from Florida.
@@rondohunter8966 no
But many turned into Trump Republicans., which is the opposite of what they fought for in the past. How times change.
@@jukodebu Perhaps not. There is some confusion over the etymological origins of the word. However it is agreed that the miners of the Appalachians attempting to organize unions were involved in the use of the term if not it's origin. It is associated with the union movement regardless.
These folks are exactly like my mom's family and a better group of kind-hearted, hardworking, trusting and honest folks you'll ever meet.
Nothing Kind Hearted about these H*cks. They are some of the most Prejudiced people to ever exist.
@@ethandollarhide7943 🧌
My grandparents were from Easley South Carolina, and I remember hearing them use about half of the words mentioned here. I enjoyed this a lot! I'd love to live with neighbors like these people, they're good, down to earth, friendly people.
More like extremely prejudiced people. I hope you're a White Christian because that's pretty much the only way you're getting respect.
I grew up and went to school in Easley. Great little town but it is growing and changing a lot these days.
@@tonyfrance4100 Did you by chance know a Patty, David or Dena Jones?
It's really crazy how the mountain talk is really close to how the people in Ireland talk. It's almost like I'm listening to my dad (he was from Ireland) all over again. To many, this talk may sound child-like, but to me it's so creative and relatable!
Most people that settled in Appalachia were of Irish and Scott decent that's why the dialect and the music and the moonshine lol
@@thisguys8809 Mostly it was Scot-Irish or Ulster Scots (the Scottish of northern Ireland). Other types of Scots and the Irish were a much smaller portion of the immigrant population.
@@IntrospectiveHousewife the earlier scots would have taken their words and fiddle music to amerikay. words like critter/jine/lang/sang and more. a kin hear much of the english accent hear tho as they were the majority. then a 100 or so years later the the ulster scots came(although many of these scots would have lived in ireland a few years or even months then left for amerikay). your fiddle fiddle reel music would have it's origins in scotland. there are a few in amerikay.
I’m 49 and when I was a teenager, I saw a documentary about somewhere in England, where the people speak like someone from The United States in Georgia. That’s when I realized where our different “American” accents came from!
Where in Ireland?
My entire life has been guessing what the hell my dad is talking about. "Gimme a fxupsdr, will ya?" Ummm.... (picks up random objects until he says "a'ight") Thank you, Appalachia.
Lmaooooi
They will be fond memories as you age!
That's your standard fix-upsider. You use it to fix ups stuff.
Is it a coffee?
@Johnny Acevedo hablo español pero no soy latina. Soy maestra de inglés, tal vez por la culpa de mi padre😅
Bonus term: "Runt" means "ruined." My mother's from West Virginia and my dad is Scottish. I like watching these videos and reading comments from people who don't understand a lick of what's being said.
I’m from south Florida but I’ve been backpacking in the smokys since i was 10. A beautiful paradise hidden in the south.
As an Irishman I am hearing a lot of south west Irish in these people. They talk like Kerry men.
I’m from southeast Tennessee in the mountains and I’m Irish/ Cherokee and hearing you say that makes me feel good because of my heritage lol
Because south west irish are the one who migrate first probably
Do you mean southwest Irish words, or a southwest Irish accent? Or something else?
That's because Appalachia was populated by people of Scots-Irish, English and Welsh heritage, like my family that are Scots-Irish and came to Appalachia in 1789 from County Cork, one of my grandmother's used to sing "mountain ballads" that were variations of Welsh, Irish and English ballads, she would sing them when she was washing dishes, folding clothes or just about any other of her domestic duties.
Haha, I do too. Sounds like Mikey Joe O’Shea himself!
Studied both British and American English. Found that in the Appalachians, the people were speaking English that was as close to 17th and 18th century English, Irish and Scots as one as could get.
Yes, many as the video pointed out were Scot's Irish and living in the mountains isolated them so the language didn't change as much as it did in more populated areas. There was just less outside influence. Many of the customs and traditions have their roots with the Irish and Scots as well.
Cole Parker so true, I’m from the Appalachians and my dad always told me this.
That’s why Shakespeare makes no sense to the modern reader. Because the modern pronunciation is all wrong and all of the analogies and metaphors that Shakespeare used were not 100% poetic, but actually how a lot of people spoke, just as a lot of southern Americans and especially hillbillies do now.
It comes out the more we drink lol
Well they can't speak close to English, Irish and Scots as these are all completely different accents. And in England there are a whole load more different accents. Saying that based on this video they sound a bit like a mixture of all those with a strong US twang
this makes me so happy! I have a ton of family from Appalachia that I haven’t seen in a while and hearing their familiar way of speaking brought back some real good memories.
As an English, it makes me really proud that how my language came across the pond and developed in this beautiful little tilt. Much respect to those people, and my salutations.
They actually recon that it's the case that we (English) changed our speech, and this is more like old English, I suppose it makes sense because some of these communities were quite isolated in a huge country.
@@jaybe2908 most definitely. I wouldn’t go and say that it totally sounds like an old English, because you still do not use the old grammatical structure. and also, you will still hear some of the native Ness in native Americans if you listen to the people of the mountains.
I can hear and appreciate the Scottish-Irish escence in this people's accent.
I can hear English West Country accent!
@@Bella-fz9fy That's still Celtic, from the Welsh peoples.
@@PiracyandDumbbells
It's closest to older English dialects, before RP became the accepted standard, I believe.
On that, Scots is derived from the Northumbrian dialect of Old English.
@@teausvult4791 Interesting, thanks for the correction.
@@PiracyandDumbbells Many people from Cumberland went to Appalachia as they were miners by trade, there are similarities in the words used, and I believe Cumbrian clog dancing also made the move with them.
I live here, almost everyone says yonder even if they aren’t that country. But honestly old mountain folk are some of the nicest people you will ever meet
How long will the language take to infect me if I moved there?
Nicest gang rape i ever craigslisted
@@dirkdiggler. oddly specific
Ozymandias just depends on who you hang around. I have a neutral accent but so do most of my friends and family. But even if you don’t speak Appalachian it won’t take you very long to understand it, you’ll naturally get an ear for it
@@espio30 I live in the appalachian mountain region and I don't like my southern accent. I've done a lot to remove most of the "aint nern o'er yonder" from my vocabulary. If you don't want it, you can prevent it.
West Virginia born and raised! Will never live anywhere else, this video fills me with memories of youth and hearing the thick accents makes me nostalgic and feel at home… just makes me smile.
I could listen to these dear folks all day. God bless ‘em.
The people of the Appalachians don’t get the respect they deserve. They are wonderful people who love anyone and everybody they come across. And on top of their beautiful attitudes, the landscape is astonishingly beautiful and picturesque.
Edit: Please ignore the ignorance and rude replies
@cheryl tunt I’m Canadian and was trying to describe with words how I completely identify with the folks in this video. You summed it up perfectly! You are correct about the connection to the southern US. “Most” Canadians (born here, like 2-3 generations) are very polite, very kind, and very community minded. We really do love and help our neighbours. The lovely people in this video remind my of my great-aunts and great-uncles, aunts, uncles, cousins - heck, even my mom and dad in many ways. If I moved there, I’d feel right at home!
Unless you are a minority or gay. But yeah if you are a straight white Christian I’m sure they’re pretty friendly.
@Timmy P well tim a quick google search quickly disproves your statement. The first 5 results provide statistics and famous recent cases. With the advent of the internet research is incredibly easy. Why do you assume people wouldn’t bother to disprove your statement. And if you know it’s not a true statement and that it can easily be disproved then why even bother making it
@@i-vlog1994 I’m a minority and the Appalachian people were just as kind to me as they were to my white companions. Nice try buddy 🗿
@@freedamerican5243 that’s cool that, that was your experience but it isn’t for everyone. Confirmation bias is not evidence. Statistics such as reported hate crimes on the fbi website are though.
If it's someone she didn't like, she'd call him a "peckerwood."
Some things just don't need translation.
Peckerhead or peckerwood are also a thing in the plains states, usually head but sometimes wood.
Peckerhead is in our vocabulary too and I'm Australian of Scottish and Irish background. And yeah, it needs no explaining...
Black Americans use the word "Peckerwood" for a unpleasant/racist white person.
Peckerwood is quite used though. Heard it alot in American films/tv series.
I'd imagine she didn't mean anything other than 'wood that's been compromised by a woodpecker.' Raunchiness is a more recent thing
No place like Appalachia. Home Sweet Home from Georgia to Maine.
I love how Audio from the era was so smooth and soothing
Imagine being a modern college student and calling someone a "peckerwood" during a debate.
Okay, i tried. It didn't work.
@@richardportman8912 As long as you tried your hardest. It's the effort that counts!😛
My mom still uses that as a slur for white people lol.
@@MariNate1016 Ain't racism wonderful?
@@MariNate1016 envy isn’t very flattering
“You want a coke?”
“Yes ma’am.”
“What kind?”
“Dr. Pepper.” - me as a child. Everything was a coke to country folk.
True, or cold drink
South Texas we call it coke as well. Even in Spanish, “coca”.
All about RC and moonpies.
Coke is universal, and great on a hot day
Yeah and you got one from the Frigidaire regardless of what make of refrigerator you owned. - edit: that’s actually not so because if we were lucky enough to get a Co Cola we drunk it afore we had a chance to put it in the Frigidaire.
Fascinating. Thank you for making this documentary.
lovely people. greetings from london, uk. we have many accents and dialects here too
It’s interesting how the Scots-Irish influence is always prominently mentioned whenever you see anything about Appalachian culture. My family is from West Virginia and I grew up hearing that we had a lot of Scots-Irish ancestry but, after doing my family tree, I discovered it was overwhelmingly English, with just a sprinkling of Scots-Irish and Irish.
This tells us that your family was very proud of their Scotch-Irish roots! I have lived through the same! Greeting to a fellow Scot-Irish decedent!
@@lionheart830 mines scots-ulster, still proud!
Things that are "normal" turn invisible.
That's how a specific crow in a swarm get's named "white wing" for having a white patch on one wing - all the black is too normal to even be worth mentioning.
And I suppose British settlers arrived very early on (what with England not being Puritan enough for the Puritans any more) and had time to spread out, so the Irish and Scottish were a smaller number.
That, and ... well, there's this really, really unhappy chapter of immigration titled "coffin ships". Think spiritual relatives to today's coyotes.
the US is full of plastic paddies
@@frej586 scotch-irish aren't true Irish
Fun fact: The Scottish, Appalachian, and Moroccan mountains were once all 1 mountain range.
So Scottish settlers literally just moved to a different part of the mountain range which is kind of fascinating to think about.
the ultimate deja vu
Fact? :)
Its fascinating. I looked it up. So cool.
Which is why we still say ‘poke’ for paper bag 🏴
@thomas Prior Americans make it sound like there are 0 English (or Welsh) people in the US, either everyone is Scottish or Irish it seems.
Love this! Breaking barriers so that others realize what treasures we can find!
Growing up in the Piedmont of North Carolina but from a family who were from the Appalachian range this partially the language on which I was raised. Love this video because it reminds me so much of my grandmother, uncles and so many other family members all gone.
The dude with the book, pages flippin’ in the wind...he’s just enjoying the airish day over by the si-gogglin road....
ahh Appalachia, where everyone sounds like their holding an auction.
, we just speak more slow and such
These likes are no substitute for disappointmenting your father
Ever see the auctioneers put to a hiphop beat machine?
damn lol is this really what it sounds like? after living all over the US but most reacently near Appalachia i cant even notice the difference in speed. Maybe it seems that way because they don't have as much space between their words so it kinda bleeds together
@@dirkdiggler. disappointmenting... Lmao
These folks remind me of my family. Some of the expressions and way of just making words and phrases up. My grandpa’s family supposedly came somewhere from the Appalachian mountains and wandered through Tennessee and Kentucky. Ended up in southern Illinois. I always felt more at home around people that talked like them. They’s good people.
* Prejudiced people. Not Good People.
Sounds beautiful ... this dialect is true national treasure!
I worked with a woman from eastern Tennessee in Chicago 15 years ago. We could only understand about 1/3 of what she said, but she was the most polite ever. miss you Wilma.
Miss Wilma! I love how the Southerners call women Miss (firstname) and they're so polite, 'yes sir' and 'no ma'am'. Who remembers the TV series Dallas, and how the matriarch was called Miss Elly, and the sons called her ma'am and their father Jock Ewing sir if the conversation got serious.
My mother was from Tennessee her name was Wilma.
WILMA! .Oh How adorable. I'll bet that comes from Willie Mae? Or Willie Mae comes from William and Wilma combined. I had an Aunt Mae whose name was Willie Mae.
I had a Granny Wilma in rural eastern NC and many of her sentences started with, "Naow lis'in..." 💜
Polite until they see or find out that you're a member of a minority. Then they become the most disrespectful people you'll ever meet.
20 years behind you say....2040 is going to suck...
😄
LOL
Let’s not forgot next year. 20 years behind...Good luck
@@freedamerican5243 youve taken the place of best comment of 2020
2041 will be worse
Love this, Im from one state down from these people & I’ve heard a portion of these words used. Especially “yonder” I’ve used that word my whole life & still use it now.
My big mama was from Virginia and new Orleans and loved to here her talk and it sounded alot like this I love it
I’ve lived in North Alabama my whole life and myself and my whole family talk this way. We don’t ever notice how bad our accent is until we hear ourselves on the phone! Long live Appalachian people
That accent isn't bad. It's the most beautiful and uniquely American thing that the ear can hear.
I remember watching swamp people with my girlfriend and she needed the subtitles and I didn’t even realize I understood everything just fine. Lol. It made me happy.
I'm from Oneonta, Alabama initially but grew up in Texas for most of my life. Never got the accent myself but I got to visit home recently and I can't really help but feel a sense of pride in being connected to this dialect and culture. Maybe not the most glamorous lifestyle to some, but it's a part of the world that's filled with some of the nicest and most hardworking people I've ever met.
North Alabama born and raised, heard all these phrases all my life except “ boomer” haven’t heard anyone called a peckerwood since I was a kid though, made me smile. 😊
Roll tide!!!
I talked like this when I was a kid. I was ashamed of it and I left it behind.
As a grown man it saddens me that our Appalachian way of talking is disappearing. I’m glad it’s been thoroughly documented.
As someone that also grew up in Appalachia, I say Good Riddance to the entire culture.
I mean alot of mountain people like to have sex with their cousins so leaving that behind ain't all bad 😂
@@ethandollarhide7943
Bad
@@jakesuper6447 Good
@@armandonobrega5282 Very well said. Hello from Ashe County, NC.
I loved watching this video and nothing would be better than sat around a log fire having a good chat with you people. I am from Bristol England and can understand everything you people were saying but i wish you could hear my very broad Bristol accent you would love it. Most Americans I have met abroad did not even think I was from England and said they had never heard anybody speak like that before. So my cousin friend’s look up the Bristol accent.🇬🇧
My dad is from Robbinsville and I grew up going there more times than I can count. I never knew it was as akin to Scots Irish as the video and comments mentioned. Sent this to my parents. Thanks for making it.
The language of my folks. The only word I have never heard was "sigoggolin". I think the word my folks used is cattywampus.
Ann Elliot lol I use cattywampus and I’m from near St. Louis
Same here. I always heard it as "cattywumpus."
Yer from a different holler then. :)
瑞轲 this is true. I am as well. Little farther south and you get into a new language. I love it.
@Anjelica Snorcket banana puddin'. Nobody in my family ever said "pudding". It just doesn't sound right.
"I'd rather live in hell with a broken bat than live in Washington DC" - best quote of the century!!
Broken back.
@@thecatatemyhomework Back broke.
It was “back” but yeah it’s funny lol
@@JB-iz8tf broke back mountain
@@JB-iz8tf spinal
Loved this video! Love from Australia.
I'm from a particularly northern and (these days) relatively affluent part of Appalachia in Western Pennsylvania. While the accents there have evolved generationally, my great grandparents spoke much like this. It reminds me of kindly old people from a different world who seem superhuman by today's standards. The number of practical skills, faith and purpose driven life.
" Kindly Old People" more like extremely prejudiced old people.
@@ethandollarhide7943 I imagine that the only way you manage to avoid dropping dead from shameful irony is that you are actually dense enough to not realize that that comment is 100% black and white prejudice towards an entire generation and/or culture.
All hatred and bigotry comes from the same place: a stupid person who can't be reasonable has a negative experience with individuals of a social group - and then decide that it's somehow "fair" to hold the entire social group accountable for it. This is a tribal warfare instinct called "the calculus of social substitutability". It's the reason why we have genocides, political mass murder, lynching, and others.
In my experience, people who behave like you are very frequently shitty, argumentative, narcissistic, insecure, conflict-driven crybabies who try to cover up their terrible personality, empathy, and lack of contribution towards the public good with extreme political or ideological opinions, despite the fact you make a positive difference in the life of NO ONE and are equally as shitty and bigoted as racists, homophobes, or misogynists. Grow and change.
@@judgeholden6761 Just my opinion. As a Free American I'm entitled to it and the fact that you made fun of me for having that opinion shows that you're a C*mmunist Sn*wflake.
That comment hit me good.
I went to WCU to college in the early 70's and had to take a required "speech and communication class. The instructor was from Cornell, NY. One day he said you have one of the most unique ways of communication using words and phrases I have never heard. I'm not sure how anyone can understand you. Unless you change I don't think you will ever be very successful in life. It kinda hurt my feelings and I said "well, there's a whole lota people that talk just like me where I'm from and they've done alright." Told my Daddy about it and he was always encouraging " don't worry it one little bit he's a outsider and caint hepit. Lay in there!" By the way I'm 68 years old and everything has worked out jest fine!!!
"You won't be successful with that accent." = "If you're not like us, we won't let you survive in this world." Some people are very entitled to their own selves, especially if they are a majority, they can't imagine people existing in any other way. They can't comprehend that the world is vast and diversity is inevitable, and beautiful.
Ain't nothin like Sylva Nc
lividlumm 21 Franklin ain’t so bad either 😀
@Jim Taylor There are quite a few Taylors in North East Georgia. Wonder if we had common relatives? My ancestors came over around 1740-ish. Who knows?
Most of my family on both sides are from Sylva and Cullowhee. When my daughter was a toddler she called the Tucaseegee the Tuckulseegee.
One day my wife and I were traveling through the Appalachian mountains in North Carolina and got a flat tire. We had several car's stop and offer assistance. One guy told us it wasn't safe traveling through the mountains with a small spare tire and insisted on taking the tire to his house to fix it. It took what seemed like forever but they fixed our tire and sent us on our way, even though they had no idea who we are.
Smitty Haha that's just what we country folk do. On the other hand there's lots of mountain communities that don't cotton to strangers...just depends on where you are. I'm in the mountains of east TN, although I grew up in the flat lands (Sandhills) of NC. It took a pretty good while to fit in with folks over here, but once you do you're in!! I wouldn't live in a city for any amount of money, gotta have my country!! Happy you had a good experience visiting our neck of the woods, y'all come back now, ya hear!!!
T Black Good old southern hospitality. Nothing beats corn flat cakes and peas with rice. I might be wrong, but I heard many times that is your everyday dishes. Anyway, what you fellas eat down there? I’ve already cooked jambalaya, crawfish pie and frog legs, but it’s quite different from Appalachian.
Joe Barbaro Rofl, thanks for the giggle Joe....as for my family I'm sure we pretty much eat the same things you do. As a southern cook, but not necessarily living in the previous century, I do fry a lot, chicken, pork chops, country fried steak, etc. I also use a Crock-Pot to make pork roast and pot roast. I'm not a big fan of peas like most down here, but I'll fix a pot of pinto beans with a ham hock and a pone of cornbread any day of the week. I make biscuits and sausage gravy from scratch, and grits. Lots of folks also like greens, i.e. collards, mustard, etc...there again I don't care much for greens either. I'm also not a fan of squirrel, rabbit or possum, but I'll chow down on a deer steak. I'm sure you have regional favs, everyone does and since I was an over the road truck driver I've had the pleasure of eating all over the country. Lots of good food everywhere!!
T Black It been great pleasure! I’d like to cooke all of these. Yep, we have our regional favs, but I’m not from States, Central Asia. Most of them includes meat and dough, vegetable. Mutton, beaf, sometimes horse meat, but I don’t like eating what I used to drive 😂. Fried buns, our own version of jambalaya, but we name it “plov” down there, soup with dough and all vegetables you got, you put in. Fish, catfish my favorite. Camel milk, light alcohol. don’t get exited - tastes like beer. You might think that we eating nothing but a meat, I’m into fish more. Also we make candies of milk, “kurt”. I live coast off Caspian sea and lotta of folks prefer fish to a meat. But thing is, we’re eat fans, but I didn’t see no one obese. However, everyday year new fast food joint opens, kind of afraid one day we’ll be fat ass fucks, I don’t wanna insult, it’s the common problem these days. All that pop culture
T Black What you mean by “giggle”? I love your culture! I’ve never meet person from South, made my minds from what I heard. Excuse me if there was something wrong.
I picked up a lot of my speech from my great grandma and my family that is a bit southern in the roots and it made school very interesting. Some teachers would understand me and be taken back by it and some teachers had no idea what I was on about but my friend's always thought it was interesting. It became one of the my "things" that was mine and mine alone
...I just love hearing them speak!!❤❤
"Y'all" is one of the greatest words ever invented and "All y'all" is *the* greatest phrase ever invented.
well, that,s how it,s always been spoken in scotland.
@@brucecollins4729 Really? Man y'all some cool folk!
@@shanchan8247 if u came to scotland u would never understand us lol we would say......er yi aw gawn, are you all going.
And the phone greeting common in the South particularly in Texas.. Yea-ello? lol Y'all have a nice day now, come back soon y'hear.
@@paullangton-rogers2390 people in the apallachians forget the earlier scots who started arriving in the 1500s. there are some words i recognise as scottish.also, many many of the later ulster scots would still have been full scots having lived in ireland a few years or even months then leaving for amerikay (due to the tensions in ireland at the time) the scots were not welcome there. they never sat in ireland for a couple o centuries then went over in a bulk load.
Imagine living in a whole village of old boomhauers
I live a town over from where this was filmed haha
@@davis28905 awesome
@Sunshine the Cockatiel Robbinsville, NC.
I grew up in it. We can understand each other LOL
Lol
I can't lie within a minute of listening to these men speak I knew I could surely listen to whole stories from them with complete fascination.
My people! I can understand every word. Some I didn't know but most I do. I love these people.
"OH YOU'RE TALKIN' LIKE A SODY POP, SODY WATER!"
such a wholesome moment
@@FranzVonGaart Big chungus keanu!
Don't you drink sody pop? 😁 ❤️ From West by-God Virginia
kinda cringe
@@whoisthis7443 EDIT: thanks for the gold kind stranger!
When I heard the lady say: "I'd just as soon be in hell with my back broke." I screamed. My Daddy used that same phrase, very frequently.
This video was great, very nostalic for me. Grew up in Appalachia, heard lots of these words and this accent all the time. Great people, really.
*Extremely prejudiced people. Coming from somebody that also grew up in Appalachia.
This brought back sooo many memories of my Grama thank you!