I intentionally weave words from my Appalachian roots into conversations at work and then often walk away without explaining them. Drives folks nuts and I love it!
I’m from West Virginia and moved to California to go to college at 17. People acted like I was from a foreign country. Anyway, 15 years later and I have no accent or Appalachian vocabulary at all…until I go visit family and it comes right back.
Im from WV and when I moved to Pennsylvania 5 years to be with my boyfriend, he would and still does gets tickled at certain words I use. It's just my WV Roots talking.
I had an Uncle that could read printed words. But could not read cursive writing. He said of himself , “I can read reading. But, I can’t read writing.” My uncle did.
This is true of my grandchildren, due to using computers in school now and never learning cursive writing. I think it’s sad to let cursive writing become a dying “art”.
The time I spent in Virginia and West Virginia was fantastic, amazing memories that I'll never forget. Appalachian folk are among the most open hearted and welcoming people on this planet, without doubt. Warmest regards to y'all, from a cousin Brit.
I absolutely love the young girls smile. Her happiness is contagious. I love your videos. It's a fantastic way to celebrate and teach others about our heritage.
I live in Nova Scotia, Canada and we use many of your words and expressions here. Our accent is different but we definitely could carry on a conversation with you in Appalachia.
My Grandmother who was Native American and raised in a Baptist Orphanage in SC used most of these words and phrases. She can't remember much but her older brother said that their parents died when she was four and he was eight and that they lived on a small reservation in North Carolina. Her and her brother were adopted by Baptist Missionaries that visited Indian enclaves in the Carolinas.
You know, we did call those toboggans, and now that I think on it, I don't know why. We also called actual toboggans a sled. I don't know that I ever made the connection as a kid. And "commence" literally means "to start", so that's just proper English right there. Now to add one, my pawpaw always said "pull to" instead of close. As in "Pull it to" or "pull the door to". I remember being very young and very confused with him waving at the door I just left open after I came running in from picking apples out back, and he kept going "pull it to boy!". Was an awkward couple of minutes until he was grumbling and starting to get up out of his old chair saying something about flies coming in that I understood he meant "close the door".
So my dad had a saying for everything. When I was a youngin I asked him if there was a difference between a violin and a fiddle. He said "yep! Ya carry a violin in a leather case and ya carry a fiddle in a burlap sack." He was the best!
My grandparents were from Swain county and they said "Youn's" and "Your'n" a lot. My grandmother also threatened to "Jerk a knot" in my tail when I was bad.
My uncle used to say "snatch a knot on your head" when I was a kid. He was actually from Birmingham. I lived in Yancey County for a couple of years when I was about 6-7, but grew up in Middle TN after that. I know many of these terms, but not all of them.
"Might could." I've heard that from people who come from the Southern-most region of Virginia. "Mom, will you make an apple pie tonight?" "I might could do that."
@@elizabetholiviaclark I live in the southern most part of VA...right on the NC line & yeh! We absolutely still say ustacould, mightacould, & oughtacould everyday! Haha! 😄
Hearing all these words sure make me miss hearing my PaPaw talk... And he always told us when we left his house, "Y'all be particular, now!" God Bless him.
I'm from eastern Kentucky. Some of these I didn't hear much growing up. "Donnic" or however it was spelled, I may have heard once or twice. "Right smart" I heard a lot, but not said that way, i heard it more like "We still got a right smart way to go." "Toboggan" I didn't realize was an Appalachian thing until I moved to central KY, I still say it. "Gommed" i still use often. "Sideling" I heard a lot but I don't use much. "Sigogglin" I've heard maybe once or twice in common speech. We usually said "cockeyed" and now "whopperjaw" is more common. I've heard my papaw say "kersplunge". "Wasper" was another one I didn't realize was an Appalachian thing til I moved away. "Commence" and "directly" I use on a regular basis. "Punk wood" I can't remember hearing. Another one yall didn't mention, that I didn't realize was Appalachian is "buggy". You go to the store, if you're getting more than one or two things you grab a buggy. Apparently the rest of the country calls them carts, or "shopping carts".
@@zaram131 I always just thought that was what it was called everywhere. But when I moved from eastern Kentucky to central Ky, people laughed at me when I said it. It's like toboggan. I had no idea that that wasn't just what they were called until I moved away. People would laugh when I said it and be like "you mean a beanie?" Back then (about 17 years ago) I would get embarrassed and be like "I guess." Nowadays I just say "No, I mean toboggan damn it."
"Took to" -- He took to splitting wood like he had been doing it for years. OR Used to describe immediate action--- As soon as he saw us, that bear took to climbing a tree.
In my part of Appalachia, the tip of southwest Virginia, I hear kerplunk all the time instead of kersplunge. Dry or wet 😂 "It went KERPLUNK right in the water!" or "It fell right off the counter, KERPLUNK!"
Use of the word kerplunk extends upward into the mountainous areas of southeast Pennsylania, and perhaps farther. My mother was raised in Fayetteville, PA. I remember hearing her and her family say kerplunk when I was a youngster.
An elderly gentleman I went to church with, when asked how he was doing would reply; Well I'm a bit stov up today I rekun. Mr. Paul is up in his 90's and still going.
My mother, her sister and two brothers were visiting. One brother got his camera out to take some pictures. He had trouble getting the lens cover off and said to his brother, “I might have to have a ‘wrecking bar’ bar to get this thing off, do you have one.?” His brother replied, “Reckon I do!”
I picked that one up from my grandma🙂 my 8 yearold says" I wrenched my leg,or I wrenched my arm,etc" we have no idea were that word or saying came from.
I say britches all the time, people at work just laugh at me. And the grandkids know what "I'm gonna tear your britches up, if you don't behave" means just fine!
My sister and I grew up on my Grandparents' farm in WV in the 50's. Grampap was a PA coal miner of Russian descent, and my Grandmother from Alabama was a member of the Church of the Brethern. Appalachian dialect, intermingled with southern colloqualisms, made for some interesting words and phrases! Daddy was from Mississippi so there were a few Cajun influences in the mix, too. 🙄😂🙃
Growing up, I was always accused of making a big gomey mess in the kitchen. My granddaddy used the word “directly” very often. “Go get in the car, we’ll be leaving directly.” Sometimes “shortly”. This is not on topic, but one day, I asked Granddaddy if he wanted to go outside and he said, “Noooo, too much air out there.”
My favourite word is, was and will always be sigogglin. The first time I heard it, I fell in love with it. The best part about saying it here in Australia is when you do, people kinda act like I’m having a stroke or something, which I think is hilarious. Makes me laugh every time.
I was born in Eastern KY...Jenkins , my husband an I went to Australia, for two weeks, we had people following us just to hear us talk ..yes it was wonderful because they had a accent also and words that I could never pronounce!!.. like baklava...I love the stuff, so I go into a bakery just to see what they had..there it was !! I had to finally go behind the counter and direct the lady to what I wanted I wanted baklava but the way I was saying it was not their way of saying it ""we laughed just laid all over each other dying laughing"" she was a heafty woman !!! haaa l love those people's..
@@Sirmullins I love baklava too, my favourite sweet thing. My father spent some time in America when he was a young man. I always thought he must of spent some time in the south. He introduced me to bluegrass and America whiskey, Hank Williams, and Bill Monroe. He also served in the U.S. Navy. About a year ago I met a guy from Texas on a Sydney train and he was out here with the Navy, so I told him about my dad and he tells me that there’s a lot of Navy bases in Virginia and I wondered if that was the connection. I think Southerners and Australians are like each other. We have strong ties to Scottish and Irish ancestry. Most of the convicts that were sent out here were Celtic. I think we’re both different and the the same. The British only sent the convicts out because, after the war of independence, the new republic wasn’t going to accept transportation from England to Virginia any more. Anywho, it’s great to meet you. Stay Well.
We always had a pounding when a new pastor came to our church, and often when a young couple got married and moved into their first home.. Just as you said, folks brought a pound (or more), of staples like sugar, flour, coffee, shortening, rice, beans, grits, cornmeal, and so on. Fond memories!
My mom always said “ tump” , as in “ he tumped it over” I wrote “tumped “ on one of my incident reports at work... and the secretary didnt know what it meant 😀
"Hold you tater(s)." Wait a minute or have patience. I used this comment to my young child when we were checking out in a store and did not realize how old fashioned it was until the clerk said she had not heard that since her great grandparents. My mom was from NC mountains. A lot of these terms are being lost or pushed out by high faluting city folk. LOL:)
This reminds me of one time when my Daddy told my brother Ricky to "hold yer tater." Ricky was about "3 year old" (as my Grandma used to say). He knew what "hold yer tater" meant, but we were eatin' dinner at Grandmother's that day & she'd fixed some mashed arsh taters. Ricky picked up his spoon, got a spoonful of 'em & just sat there holding it, & grinned like a possum. Grandmother got tickled about that & started chuckling. Daddy tried to look stern but he couldn't hold it in & started laughing, too. Great memories from childhood days ... 😀
Originally from Morganton, NC (Burke County). I'd never heard of a 'pounding' until I moved back as an adult and was given a few 'poundings' by churches and friends (marriage, birth of children and a new home even though it was a rental) and I've been to several. They were actually a pretty wonderful, creative idea. It's a shame it isn't done in more places. 'Carry to' was another phrase I had to get used to. My grandmother would say 'Your Uncle Jerry (like I didn't know who he was. Lol!) is going to 'carry me to' the curb market in a bit (because everyone knows which grocery store is on the 'curb'). Lol! Used to take me a sec to get the visual out of my head. Lol!
My husband calls a barn a "barnd" He grew up on top of a mountain in the hills of East Tennessee!!! He also says ashers for ashes. My daddy used to call a mountain dew a soder dope. And poison was always pison. I love talking to people who have no clue as to what I'm saying. It tickles me!!!
I know several of these and I've never visited Appalachia, just drove through sight seeing a few times. Moreover, I moved from Cleveland, Ohio one week shy of my 15th birthday to east of Atlanta. Back in '66 it took me 3 months to understand the spoken word. That said, I like the way y'all talk.
I'm familiar with most of those words and phrases, but especially the word "darnick" for a rock. My granny used it often, as in "If you overwork and overbake that dough, them biscuits will be hard as a darnick."
Appalachian words are my favorite part of your videos🥰 can’t get enough❗️ They bring this world to life for me- I enjoy the comments as well, ha!! Thanks Tipper and family❣️
Two uses of the word "turn": Y'all watch out for that man, he's got a funny turn.: My Daddy speaking "Tomorrow I gotta take a turn of corn to the mill".
Thanks, I've heard a lot of these words and phrases used over the years while growing up in the hills. There are places in McDowell County, WV that still use those words and phases like this. But the sad part is that most people are afraid to go in those places. I'm afraid as time goes by it will be lost, like so many other things in our little county. Our county is mostly made up of older people and we are losing them so fast. Oh, there are young folks at still live there, but time is against them dew to the like of jobs. Bless your whole family, looking forward to the next video. Have a great evening!
@@whereswaldo5740 Yes, I have read some Foxfire Books. One problem with the books was plants, they did not have colored pictures of the plants they would talk about and it made it hard to know if you found the right plant or not. Other than that they were and still are great books to have a read.
My stepgrandma used to say it, but then it would be several hours before she actually showed up. If you say you'll be somewhere "directly" it sure sounds much sooner than that!
When my momma used “Directly” I knew I was in trouble. She would say, you get yourself dy..rectly down to the wood shed and I knew my hind end was in for a tanin (spankin). Girls, your mother is so beautiful. So, you know your beauty will carry through in your life.
I don't know how ya'll popped up in my feed but I've been watching your videos up a storm. I'm 52 and my Nan and PawPaw pretty much raised me. They're gone and seeing these foods and language vids, has me in my feelings. She was born in 1920 (d. 4/2010) in Alleghany Co. Up in Covington, Rich Patch and Roanoke. So many have passed on but we still have plenty kin up in those Blue Ridge mountains. Richmond, too. My PawPaw was born in Dudley, GA, Laurens Co. 2/1923 (d. 6/1999) I was born in FL and live in Atlanta now. I travel a lot and I think I need to go visit. I miss my grandparents so much. Nan didn't put coffee in her Red Eye but I died when you made it, in another video. It's been so long since I've had any. Thanks, Ms. Tipper. You've stirred up a mess of great memories for me this week! Tracy
This is gold! My favorite WNC expression for something that smells really bad is “that smells worser than keyarn.” I learned it the day I came to work after eating some fresh ramps the night before! Lol!
I watch your channel, because you are the healthiest family I know! I’ve watched so long, I feel related to you. I just love you all. In fact, I listened to Paul and Pap’s album all day! Pap’s harmony with Paul’s voice is just so good. I was listen to Shepherd of my Soul! ♥️🙏🏼♥️
Gosh I love this. I use about half of those sayings on a regular basis still. Those two girls of yours are so funny. It was great to see the Deerhunter a lot more than usual. Bloopers were great.
Words of My greatgrandmother (Little Grandmother) Mountain Lion = painter bed spread = counter pin window pane (glass) = light couch = davenport it = hit ghost = haint
My wife and I grew up in Scioto County Ohio and we have been thinking of moving from Dayton back home and this video makes me think that thinking we should do so is a good idea. So much more peace
You are some bright, sweet people with a great sense of humor. Those girls have such beautiful smiles. Don't worry. I'm just a grey haired old guy with no money! 😁 God bless all here.
"I've got to wear a toboggan." If you say that in Canada we will be unable to help ourselves from laughing. A toboggan in canada is a very long plank of laminated wood curled up in the front meant for sliding down a snowy hill. The image of you wearing that on your head will provoke all the twitterpated fools (is that where I got that word?) to chime out in laughter.
Sigogglin is my favorite, I call my model railroad, the Sigogglin creek Railroad. I am familiar with most of these cause I grew up in the Ohio Valley and family comes from Appalachian area.
I’ve heard a bunch of these but some are new to me. I was born up north but I’ve been over on the other side of the dragon from y’all for quite a while now. I love hearing the Appalachian words and drawl all around and learning the history of it all.
My wonderful, big ole, part shepherd dog from childhood always went Kersplunge into the washtub beside the house when it was his time for a bath. He knew no other way and he seemed to have as good a time as I did. What fun we had! And, I wonder if people everywhere would understand what I meant when I say today I am plum tuckered just watching ya'll plant your garden!
Hand up some of those cheap 0.99 ¢ wire hanger toilet bowl rim scent blocks in places where wasps build, like in pole barns...it’ll keep the wasp away.
@@CelebratingAppalachia I love language both spoken and written. But spoken is more fun because there is a human involved and you get the intonation and facial expressions. Your channel is so fun.
Here in the hills of Arkansas we say youn's all the time. My grandpa would always say "A dog that poops fast won't poop long" 😆 also instead of saying "not a one of them" my grandparents would say "nary one" and if you shouldn't do something you "ortin ta do it"
I can't help going on with some comments here, I get a flood of memories from my mom and dad while watching the video and reading the comments. Dad would say wood was "doted." I just looked that word up in the dictionary; it's there. It's listed as the third definition stating it's a "decay of wood." I've only heard my dad use that term. Another my mom would use (that chokes me up a little) was, "You'll realize one day, big boy, you'll never miss the water till the well runs dry." I miss my momma and daddy. I love these videos. Thanks for them.
I almost spit coffee when she started talking about shoving food down the drain!! 😂😂😂. We still use several of these words , I thought everybody said Directly . Its funny how you always say a word so you take it like its common and turns out its not common at all. 🤪😂
One other term used by country folks is Whomperjawed, like "He chawed tobaccer so long it made his face all whomperjawed." Anything that wasn't aligned properly was whomperjawed.
I know half of these. I'm over the mountain in Franklin. I'm loving this! I was all set to go off on someone, but you're actually from around these parts so I'm good.
Cattywampus I used a lot growing up. And when I was in high school back in the 90s, people would call somebody "wampus cat" if he was a big ol boy. But yeah, cattywampus was a common one for crooked. Cockeyed was what we've always said the most. Now the most common one I hear when I'm back home is "whopperjaw".
I say both Catywampus and off kilter. You know he's off kilter a little off bubble. Or that's not square its off kilter. Or that not quite right its all Catywampus,, I'd say around swain and Jackson. That's common talk round these mountians,,
@@CelebratingAppalachia yup...and in the Rockies they also use --bawls-- to serve up them things...was it pebbles, gravel, stones,ahhh let me what did they call them things on the menu...oh yeah...boulder oisters but they wasn't sheep they was big bulls they was fix'n up not them sheep...hope that wasn't a baaaad joke...I mean takin' in appriatly...
I like the way yall talk. Hearing some familiar words yall use makes me feel at home. Never gave it much thought but it seems a whole slew of words I grew up with in Southern Illinois might translate over to Appalachia.
My paternal grandmother was from Anson County, NC, which is in flat country. Apparently Scots-Irish there talk just like mountain people.....lotsa Scots-Irish in the hills too.
If I'd tell my dad a joke, he'd tell me, "That's a hum dinger!" I can go on and on. My dad was from North Carolina and mom's roots were all from Virginia. Dad would not refer to a grocery cart as a cart, he'd say, "Throw that in the 'buggy.' "
Hum dinger used to be used that way all across the country, (at least certainly in Oregon) but it’s sort of faded away. I partly grew up in Saskatchewan in Canada, and buggy was definitely the word we used in the store.
I knew of a Cajun man who worked in the oil fields. He was up on a derrick when a thunderstorm came. He spoke about how he got down in a hurry when he "unclumb" that derrick.
@@DrMerle-gw4wj That makes perfect sense, but Cajun, hum - a lot of cultural influences there~~~interesting. As a side note: I made some Jambalaya last night that was so lively it about clum up the side of the pot!
A laying hen is an acceptable gift for a pounding. That is how my grandparents started their flock in 1922. I am a North Carolina flatlander, but I have heard most of those words.
I knew an old timer from West Virginia. He would say things like, "Those boots walk pretty good" or "them beans eat good". One of a few men I have known in my life that made a difference in who I grew up to be.
When my mom would get mad at me she'd say, "You keep it up and I'm gonna play Home Sweet Home on your head." Or, "You keep it up and I'm gonna drum you one!" I shared on another video how she'd tell me, " I don't give two hoots and a holler."
I love these videos! I am from Georgia and I recognized some of these words and still use some of these words. Toboggan, directly, commence, I also say fixin’ to, a shopping cart is a buggy. When my girls were little and they would be miss behaving I would say don’t be ugly and my northern in-laws thought that was so cute.
I intentionally weave words from my Appalachian roots into conversations at work and then often walk away without explaining them. Drives folks nuts and I love it!
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I’m from West Virginia and moved to California to go to college at 17. People acted like I was from a foreign country. Anyway, 15 years later and I have no accent or Appalachian vocabulary at all…until I go visit family and it comes right back.
Im from WV and when I moved to Pennsylvania 5 years to be with my boyfriend, he would and still does gets tickled at certain words I use. It's just my WV Roots talking.
I had an Uncle that could read printed words. But could not read cursive writing.
He said of himself , “I can read reading. But, I can’t read writing.” My uncle did.
This is true of my grandchildren, due to using computers in school now and never learning cursive writing.
I think it’s sad to let cursive writing become a dying “art”.
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WOW!!! It’s gone full circle !!
I learned the ‘Geiger’ (cursive) method in grammar school with a fountain pen.
My brother used to say I can read writing when it's written but I can't read written when it's wrote.
Aren't these all just wonderful words, I love every one of them. I grew up with these words!
A "pump knot" comes from losing control of the handle when kneeling next to a yard pump, and catching the end of the handle on your head.
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@@pistolpete9978 I learnt this one wrong. I always heard "pop knot" meant a knot formed on the skull when being popped by fist or something.
I've had a couple of pump knots from mom as a kid
Jest remember, hit don’t matter one little bit as long as you git yore point acrost.😉
A pump knot comes from my iron skillet when my old man runs his pie hole to much !
The time I spent in Virginia and West Virginia was fantastic, amazing memories that I'll never forget.
Appalachian folk are among the most open hearted and welcoming people on this planet, without doubt.
Warmest regards to y'all, from a cousin Brit.
Yeah we're deep @ heart
@@DEE-dx7kj ; Absolutely, 101%
I absolutely love the young girls smile. Her happiness is contagious. I love your videos. It's a fantastic way to celebrate and teach others about our heritage.
Thank you Richard 😀
I live in Nova Scotia, Canada and we use many of your words and expressions here. Our accent is different but we definitely could carry on a conversation with you in Appalachia.
That is so neat! Thank you for sharing Chris 😀
Makes sense because a lot of Scots settled in Appalachia.
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that’s right
The first time I went to Canada, many years ago, I had people follow me around in a campground just to here me talk. lol
Hello from the US. My mother grew up in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia!
My Grandmother who was Native American and raised in a Baptist Orphanage in SC used most of these words and phrases. She can't remember much but her older brother said that their parents died when she was four and he was eight and that they lived on a small reservation in North Carolina. Her and her brother were adopted by Baptist Missionaries that visited Indian enclaves in the Carolinas.
You know, we did call those toboggans, and now that I think on it, I don't know why. We also called actual toboggans a sled. I don't know that I ever made the connection as a kid.
And "commence" literally means "to start", so that's just proper English right there.
Now to add one, my pawpaw always said "pull to" instead of close. As in "Pull it to" or "pull the door to". I remember being very young and very confused with him waving at the door I just left open after I came running in from picking apples out back, and he kept going "pull it to boy!". Was an awkward couple of minutes until he was grumbling and starting to get up out of his old chair saying something about flies coming in that I understood he meant "close the door".
I love the word sigogglin! I usually say "cattywhompus" when something is out of whack. So fun to hear these unusual words. Thanks for sharing!
Cattywhompus is a southern expression.
I first heard cattywhompus from a friend who came from the midwest.
Ive heard of cattywhomppus.. But not the other.😊
grandma used to say the knotted twisted yarn in her yarn bag was all kerfuffled and needed a proper straightening.
@Corn &Wine What does sigogglin mean?
One of my dad’s sayings was “Airish” When it was chilly or windy. It’s right airish out today...
My granny was born in NC around 1890. When it was chilly she always said it's a "might airish"
I heard y'all conductin' school, and I commenced to smile. And, for Katie: A violin has strings and a fiddle has strangs. ;^)
Fix mah car with a ranch. Get a speaul of whar ta fix the car lectricals. Don't drop the whar in the fahr erlse itll burn up.
So my dad had a saying for everything. When I was a youngin I asked him if there was a difference between a violin and a fiddle. He said "yep! Ya carry a violin in a leather case and ya carry a fiddle in a burlap sack." He was the best!
@@Gazdatronik Had me laughin' to tears. Thanks for that.
I say alot of these words because my best friend's family was from West Virginia and her mother cooked so good I was at her house all the time
My grandparents were from Swain county and they said "Youn's" and "Your'n" a lot. My grandmother also threatened to "Jerk a knot" in my tail when I was bad.
NY dad would say those every now and then.
My uncle used to say "snatch a knot on your head" when I was a kid. He was actually from Birmingham. I lived in Yancey County for a couple of years when I was about 6-7, but grew up in Middle TN after that. I know many of these terms, but not all of them.
@@epeterd I heard "snatch a knot in your tail" my whole life growing up in Mississippi.
I heard that a lot too or how about this one I’ll knock a worm out of you
"Youn's" is classic around here.
Used-to-could.......ustacould; Formerly able to. I ustacould run real fast.
OMG I sat used-to-could and might-could all the time!
Heard this all my life. I still say it. 🙂
"Might could." I've heard that from people who come from the Southern-most region of Virginia. "Mom, will you make an apple pie tonight?" "I might could do that."
Omg...yes! We STILL say ustacould. & MIGHTaCOULD. And, my fav "oughta could." Hee! ☺
@@elizabetholiviaclark I live in the southern most part of VA...right on the NC line & yeh! We absolutely still say ustacould, mightacould, & oughtacould everyday! Haha! 😄
I'm 42 and I know about half of these thanks to my Grandparents who were born in 1917 and 1925.
Glad you're familiar with the usage 😀
Hearing all these words sure make me miss hearing my PaPaw talk... And he always told us when we left his house, "Y'all be particular, now!" God Bless him.
I'm from eastern Kentucky. Some of these I didn't hear much growing up. "Donnic" or however it was spelled, I may have heard once or twice. "Right smart" I heard a lot, but not said that way, i heard it more like "We still got a right smart way to go." "Toboggan" I didn't realize was an Appalachian thing until I moved to central KY, I still say it. "Gommed" i still use often. "Sideling" I heard a lot but I don't use much. "Sigogglin" I've heard maybe once or twice in common speech. We usually said "cockeyed" and now "whopperjaw" is more common. I've heard my papaw say "kersplunge". "Wasper" was another one I didn't realize was an Appalachian thing til I moved away. "Commence" and "directly" I use on a regular basis. "Punk wood" I can't remember hearing. Another one yall didn't mention, that I didn't realize was Appalachian is "buggy". You go to the store, if you're getting more than one or two things you grab a buggy. Apparently the rest of the country calls them carts, or "shopping carts".
Thanks Jeremy for sharing your experiences and usages 😀 I say buggy too!
“Buggy” is used throughout the South for shopping cart.
@@zaram131 I always just thought that was what it was called everywhere. But when I moved from eastern Kentucky to central Ky, people laughed at me when I said it. It's like toboggan. I had no idea that that wasn't just what they were called until I moved away. People would laugh when I said it and be like "you mean a beanie?" Back then (about 17 years ago) I would get embarrassed and be like "I guess." Nowadays I just say "No, I mean toboggan damn it."
Those "Pump Knots" were called a "Goose Egg" where I grew up!
We call em "Hickies"
Pop Knot. Not sure where they came up with pump knot. Lived in Southern Appalachia all my life.
I call them punk knots. Ha.
@@wesmliquid4561 Yes, that's what I always heard. "Pop Knot"
We use most all of those words in eastern NC. Fixin' to ( getting ready to do something. or to prepare as in "I am fixin' to make supper." ).
... fixin' to get ready to commence...
"Took to" -- He took to splitting wood like he had been doing it for years. OR Used to describe immediate action--- As soon as he saw us, that bear took to climbing a tree.
I like that usage 😀
In my part of Appalachia, the tip of southwest Virginia, I hear kerplunk all the time instead of kersplunge. Dry or wet 😂
"It went KERPLUNK right in the water!" or "It fell right off the counter, KERPLUNK!"
Use of the word kerplunk extends upward into the mountainous areas of southeast Pennsylania, and perhaps farther. My mother was raised in Fayetteville, PA. I remember hearing her and her family say kerplunk when I was a youngster.
Gersploosh??
In olde Kentuck too with my kin.
Yes kerplunk is in the dictionary ,commonly used throughout North america
My dad often says Directly but it sounds more like "dreckly". He also puts an "h" in the front of the word "it". So he might say, hit don't matter.
Thanks Sharon! I say hit too 😀 I hear some folks say dreckly too 😀
I’ve heard hit all my life, hit and hain’t, sometimes “hit hain’t.” But a haint is a ghost.
My aunt is always saying "hit don't matter" or "hits alright" and we're from SE NC
@@stellarguymk That’s where my mom’s family was mostly from. Bladen and Robeson county. Gramma said Hit and Caint.
@@michaelbarnett2527 folks in Robeson Co have some of the thickest accents I've ever heard!
When you walked up to someone or some thing you were said to have "eased up" to them or it ..... or you "sidled up" to them or it
Both great usages!
An elderly gentleman I went to church with, when asked how he was doing would reply; Well I'm a bit stov up today I rekun. Mr. Paul is up in his 90's and still going.
People make fun of me for saying I reckon. Like it's not proper English, when it is.
My mother, her sister and two brothers were visiting. One brother got his camera out to take some pictures. He had trouble getting the lens cover off and said to his brother, “I might have to have a ‘wrecking bar’ bar to get this thing off, do you have one.?”
His brother replied, “Reckon I do!”
I picked that one up from my grandma🙂 my 8 yearold says" I wrenched my leg,or I wrenched my arm,etc" we have no idea were that word or saying came from.
Thank you. I almost forgot about my dad using that. I am loving these comments as much as the video.
When a wooden ship struck rocks and the hull was broken they said "She's stove in!" It's proper, if old, English usage.
We also used sideling as to walk up beside someone...."she just sidled up to me and told me her name"
That's a great usage too 😀
Yeah. That makes sense. I’ve heard like a spur track on a railroad was a sidling track.
We use it more for horses , eg. He just sidelled up and stepped on my foot
There's an episode of Seinfeld about a sidler.
@@BigRW oh yeah that's right.....they give him tic tacs to keep in his pocket so they can hear him coming ...... 😂
I always call pants britches. I always get funny looks from people. Looks alike a lot of northerner’s have moved here.
Them yankees have gotten too big for their britches
They sure enough hat.
Those britches need to be big boy or big girl when adressin' serious issues and need to be in a chester drawers...lol. (Chest o' drawers).
I say britches all the time, people at work just laugh at me. And the grandkids know what "I'm gonna tear your britches up, if you don't behave" means just fine!
the2leaves Caught myself today saying hotter than a fried pie! I thought of what I just said the.laughed because of the videos and then felt better!
My sister and I grew up on my Grandparents' farm in WV in the 50's. Grampap was a PA coal miner of Russian descent, and my Grandmother from Alabama was a member of the Church of the Brethern. Appalachian dialect, intermingled with southern colloqualisms, made for some interesting words and phrases!
Daddy was from Mississippi so there were a few Cajun influences in the mix, too. 🙄😂🙃
Up here in the North East a Toboggan is a flat bottomed sled with no runners and the front is curled up. Usually 2,3 or more people ride at once.
Do you think when your grumpy you are a crosspatch ? Asking for a friend.
Sled yes, but the tobaggan is the winter hat we wore in the 50s chicago.
@@hotrodray6802 ..same in Ohio.
🇨🇦 a toboggan is longer than a sled. That thing on ones head in the winter is a toque.
"Caddywhompas" also means twisted, outta square/plumb, crooked, not straight
I've only ever heard of "cockywhompas" and my mom would only say it when she was making fun of something.
I've heard this one! Never been to Appalachia
Growing up, I was always accused of making a big gomey mess in the kitchen. My granddaddy used the word “directly” very often. “Go get in the car, we’ll be leaving directly.” Sometimes “shortly”. This is not on topic, but one day, I asked Granddaddy if he wanted to go outside and he said, “Noooo, too much air out there.”
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Update: True to form, I accidentally let my oatmeal boil over this morning and made a big gommy mess. Ugh!
@@LS-ek1fd 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Been there do that! (often I spend more time cleaning up than cooking and eating a meal🤦♀️)
Too much wind.
My favourite word is, was and will always be sigogglin. The first time I heard it, I fell in love with it. The best part about saying it here in Australia is when you do, people kinda act like I’m having a stroke or something, which I think is hilarious. Makes me laugh every time.
😀 It is a great word!
I was born in Eastern KY...Jenkins , my husband an I went to Australia, for two weeks, we had people following us just to hear us talk ..yes it was wonderful because they had a accent also and words that I could never pronounce!!.. like baklava...I love the stuff, so I go into a bakery just to see what they had..there it was !! I had to finally go behind the counter and direct the lady to what I wanted I wanted baklava but the way I was saying it was not their way of saying it ""we laughed just laid all over each other dying laughing"" she was a heafty woman !!! haaa l love those people's..
@@Sirmullins I love baklava too, my favourite sweet thing. My father spent some time in America when he was a young man. I always thought he must of spent some time in the south. He introduced me to bluegrass and America whiskey, Hank Williams, and Bill Monroe. He also served in the U.S. Navy.
About a year ago I met a guy from Texas on a Sydney train and he was out here with the Navy, so I told him about my dad and he tells me that there’s a lot of Navy bases in Virginia and I wondered if that was the connection.
I think Southerners and Australians are like each other. We have strong ties to Scottish and Irish ancestry. Most of the convicts that were sent out here were Celtic. I think we’re both different and the the same. The British only sent the convicts out because, after the war of independence, the new republic wasn’t going to accept transportation from England to Virginia any more. Anywho, it’s great to meet you. Stay Well.
@@Sirmullins Hey Letcher County! One of my high school mentors was from Jenkins.
My mom would say cattywumpus.
We always had a pounding when a new pastor came to our church, and often when a young couple got married and moved into their first home.. Just as you said, folks brought a pound (or more), of staples like sugar, flour, coffee, shortening, rice, beans, grits, cornmeal, and so on. Fond memories!
Thank you for sharing that Joy 😀
My mom always said “ tump” , as in “ he tumped it over”
I wrote “tumped “ on one of my incident reports at work... and the secretary didnt know what it meant 😀
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It’s too heavy to pick up, you’ll just have to tump it over...
I'm from Texas and my family says that too. We still follow my grandmother's saying, that when you feel sore and stiff you're "stove up".
My grandma on my mom's side used to say tump or tumped she lived in Louisville Kentucky but I am from Harlan County Kentucky
"Hold you tater(s)." Wait a minute or have patience. I used this comment to my young child when we were checking out in a store and did not realize how old fashioned it was until the clerk said she had not heard that since her great grandparents. My mom was from NC mountains. A lot of these terms are being lost or pushed out by high faluting city folk. LOL:)
My wife says that all the time, and she's from southern Illinois.
This reminds me of one time when my Daddy told my brother Ricky to "hold yer tater." Ricky was about "3 year old" (as my Grandma used to say). He knew what "hold yer tater" meant, but we were eatin' dinner at Grandmother's that day & she'd fixed some mashed arsh taters. Ricky picked up his spoon, got a spoonful of 'em & just sat there holding it, & grinned like a possum. Grandmother got tickled about that & started chuckling. Daddy tried to look stern but he couldn't hold it in & started laughing, too. Great memories from childhood days ... 😀
Originally from Morganton, NC (Burke County). I'd never heard of a 'pounding' until I moved back as an adult and was given a few 'poundings' by churches and friends (marriage, birth of children and a new home even though it was a rental) and I've been to several. They were actually a pretty wonderful, creative idea. It's a shame it isn't done in more places. 'Carry to' was another phrase I had to get used to. My grandmother would say 'Your Uncle Jerry (like I didn't know who he was. Lol!) is going to 'carry me to' the curb market in a bit (because everyone knows which grocery store is on the 'curb'). Lol! Used to take me a sec to get the visual out of my head. Lol!
Hello Annie, how are you doing
My husband calls a barn a "barnd" He grew up on top of a mountain in the hills of East Tennessee!!! He also says ashers for ashes. My daddy used to call a mountain dew a soder dope. And poison was always pison. I love talking to people who have no clue as to what I'm saying. It tickles me!!!
Cattywampus is a favorite of mine. I use it quite a bit. Such a cute video. You all made it fun : )
Hi Sue, how are you
I know several of these and I've never visited Appalachia, just drove through sight seeing a few times. Moreover, I moved from Cleveland, Ohio one week shy of my 15th birthday to east of Atlanta. Back in '66 it took me 3 months to understand the spoken word. That said, I like the way y'all talk.
I'm familiar with most of those words and phrases, but especially the word "darnick" for a rock. My granny used it often, as in "If you overwork and overbake that dough, them biscuits will be hard as a darnick."
Love that your Granny used that one!
First time for me never heard such:^)
Appalachian words are my favorite part of your videos🥰 can’t get enough❗️
They bring this world to life for me- I enjoy the comments as well, ha!!
Thanks Tipper and family❣️
Two uses of the word "turn": Y'all watch out for that man, he's got a funny turn.: My Daddy speaking "Tomorrow I gotta take a turn of corn to the mill".
Both uses common here James 😀 Thank you for sharing them!
I think it can also be used regarding health, as in, "Granny was doin' fine until she took a turn."
I use most of these terms. I was born and raised in Georgia, and my family came from Alabama.
Thanks, I've heard a lot of these words and phrases used over the years while growing up in the hills. There are places in McDowell County, WV that still use those words and phases like this. But the sad part is that most people are afraid to go in those places. I'm afraid as time goes by it will be lost, like so many other things in our little county. Our county is mostly made up of older people and we are losing them so fast. Oh, there are young folks at still live there, but time is against them dew to the like of jobs. Bless your whole family, looking forward to the next video. Have a great evening!
Thank you Michael!!
Ever hear of Foxfire Books. It was an attempt to preserve some of the stories and ways of doing things. It was a pretty good attempt.
@@whereswaldo5740 Yes, I have read some Foxfire Books. One problem with the books was plants, they did not have colored pictures of the plants they would talk about and it made it hard to know if you found the right plant or not. Other than that they were and still are great books to have a read.
@@whereswaldo5740 Love Foxfire Books!
One of my favorite places is Sideling Hill on Rt. 68 south of Cumberland, MD. Now I know why it's called that. Thanks!
Growing up my family would always say....I will be there directly
I love to hear people use directly! I need to make sure I say it myself 😀
Me too Tipper
My stepgrandma used to say it, but then it would be several hours before she actually showed up. If you say you'll be somewhere "directly" it sure sounds much sooner than that!
My grandma always used it too .....she said it fast and short like "dreckley"...
Exactly as my grandfather said it ...
This is what makes America great!
So many different kinds of people in our country.
When my momma used “Directly” I knew I was in trouble. She would say, you get yourself dy..rectly down to the wood shed and I knew my hind end was in for a tanin (spankin). Girls, your mother is so beautiful. So, you know your beauty will carry through in your life.
I don't know how ya'll popped up in my feed but I've been watching your videos up a storm. I'm 52 and my Nan and PawPaw pretty much raised me. They're gone and seeing these foods and language vids, has me in my feelings. She was born in 1920 (d. 4/2010) in Alleghany Co. Up in Covington, Rich Patch and Roanoke. So many have passed on but we still have plenty kin up in those Blue Ridge mountains. Richmond, too. My PawPaw was born in Dudley, GA, Laurens Co. 2/1923 (d. 6/1999) I was born in FL and live in Atlanta now. I travel a lot and I think I need to go visit. I miss my grandparents so much. Nan didn't put coffee in her Red Eye but I died when you made it, in another video. It's been so long since I've had any. Thanks, Ms. Tipper. You've stirred up a mess of great memories for me this week! Tracy
"twitterpated" always a favorite...:)
That's a good one 😀
I learned that one from Bambi.
@@antilogism Bambi and my Grandma might have hung out. lol
This is gold! My favorite WNC expression for something that smells really bad is “that smells worser than keyarn.” I learned it the day I came to work after eating some fresh ramps the night before! Lol!
My favorite word, I say it all the time!! People just laugh when I do...
I watch your channel, because you are the healthiest family I know! I’ve watched so long, I feel related to you. I just love you all. In fact, I listened to Paul and Pap’s album all day! Pap’s harmony with Paul’s voice is just so good. I was listen to Shepherd of my Soul! ♥️🙏🏼♥️
Thank you so much!!
Gosh I love this. I use about half of those sayings on a regular basis still. Those two girls of yours are so funny. It was great to see the Deerhunter a lot more than usual. Bloopers were great.
Thanks so much!! 😀
Have not heard some of those saying in a long time. Thanks for sharing
Words of My greatgrandmother (Little Grandmother)
Mountain Lion = painter
bed spread = counter pin
window pane (glass) = light
couch = davenport
it = hit
ghost = haint
Haint = spook or ghost.
"light" is a seaman's term for a glass window in a ship.
My wife and I grew up in Scioto County Ohio and we have been thinking of moving from Dayton back home and this video makes me think that thinking we should do so is a good idea. So much more peace
Most of these words are in my vocabulary except donnick, new one on me.Loved the content, always makes me feel right at home.🙂
Thank you Donald 😀
You are some bright, sweet people with a great sense of humor. Those girls have such beautiful smiles. Don't worry. I'm just a grey haired old guy with no money! 😁
God bless all here.
"I've got to wear a toboggan." If you say that in Canada we will be unable to help ourselves from laughing. A toboggan in canada is a very long plank of laminated wood curled up in the front meant for sliding down a snowy hill. The image of you wearing that on your head will provoke all the twitterpated fools (is that where I got that word?) to chime out in laughter.
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Hi anar, how are you
Asa Canadian I almost died when I heard him say that! Without seeing a toque I automatically envisioned an actual toboggan on his head!
They meant a toboggan cap, toque to you, and just shorten it to toboggan.
They do not say it outside of the Southern US; when I lived in Missouri and Oklahoma they looked at me strange as well.
Yep...my Great Grandmother always said a right smart...and directly...my brother and I in our 60 s still use these terms😊😊😊
Sigogglin is my favorite, I call my model railroad, the Sigogglin creek Railroad. I am familiar with most of these cause I grew up in the Ohio Valley and family comes from Appalachian area.
I like that name!
These people are so special! Are they really that way. A hidden America. This family is surely special.
I’ve heard a bunch of these but some are new to me. I was born up north but I’ve been over on the other side of the dragon from y’all for quite a while now. I love hearing the Appalachian words and drawl all around and learning the history of it all.
So glad you enjoy it!
My wonderful, big ole, part shepherd dog from childhood always went
Kersplunge into the washtub beside the house when it was his time for a bath. He knew no other way and he seemed to have as good a time as I did. What fun we had!
And, I wonder if people everywhere would understand what I meant when I say today I am plum tuckered just watching ya'll plant your garden!
Buz-I can just see your dog going kersplunge 😀 Thank you for watching!!
I use "directly" often and "pert near"
Another good one 😀
And "fixin' to". Sometimes it comes out as "fittin' to..."
Yes em. You can eat a mess but you can't eat no gom. I plum love these videos. I truly do. Don't never stop
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A couple of my favorites: Poke = a bag or sack, and Dope = generic term for a soft drink
My aunts always called a soft drink a dope.
@@BigRW my mom called Hershey's chocolate syrup, chocolate dope. (Ohio)
@@sf9595 Interesting. Never heard that.
Pig in a poke.
What a great lesson in Appalachian language! Only three of the words are familiar to me: commenced, pounding and directly. Thanks for posting this!
Once again I heard almost all of these things growing up in Arkansas Ozark Mountains.
JD-thank you for sharing that 😀
As a bluegrass fan this is gold, thank you so much 😊
Hand up some of those cheap 0.99 ¢ wire hanger toilet bowl rim scent blocks in places where wasps build, like in pole barns...it’ll keep the wasp away.
Don't you mean waspers?
@@fly_speck_cafe Them too!
@@mclmm6773 😄
Several of these were new to me. I Love It!!! Thanks Tipper!!
Glad you enjoyed them Rhonda 😀
My Missouri grandmother used some of these words. I'm sure they came from the Simpson part of the family which were Scotts-Irish.
Thank you for sharing that Lynn 😀 Nice to know she used them too!
@@CelebratingAppalachia I love language both spoken and written. But spoken is more fun because there is a human involved and you get the intonation and facial expressions. Your channel is so fun.
Hi Lynn, how are you doing
I spent quite a few years in appalachia growing up. Forgot about some of these. Thanks for the reminder. As a PK, i rememeber a lot of poundings
Here in the hills of Arkansas we say youn's all the time. My grandpa would always say "A dog that poops fast won't poop long" 😆 also instead of saying "not a one of them" my grandparents would say "nary one" and if you shouldn't do something you "ortin ta do it"
My dad said "nary" a lot.
I can't help going on with some comments here, I get a flood of memories from my mom and dad while watching the video and reading the comments.
Dad would say wood was "doted." I just looked that word up in the dictionary; it's there. It's listed as the third definition stating it's a "decay of wood." I've only heard my dad use that term.
Another my mom would use (that chokes me up a little) was, "You'll realize one day, big boy, you'll never miss the water till the well runs dry." I miss my momma and daddy. I love these videos. Thanks for them.
I'm so glad you enjoy our videos! I can see why you miss them so!
I almost spit coffee when she started talking about shoving food down the drain!! 😂😂😂. We still use several of these words , I thought everybody said Directly . Its funny how you always say a word so you take it like its common and turns out its not common at all. 🤪😂
😀 She is quite funny LOL! Thanks for watching!!
I live in South Texas and many of these words are a southern vernacular.
One other term used by country folks is Whomperjawed, like "He chawed tobaccer so long it made his face all whomperjawed." Anything that wasn't aligned properly was whomperjawed.
My parents, both WV natives, said it like this, "whopper-jawed". Same thing.
When I was a child we had a puppy that was born with a crooked tail so we called her whopper jawed or whopper for short.
My Grandma from North Carolina would say "I feel right pert today", when she was feeling good.
I read somewhere that the closest thing to the King's English still being spoken is in the Appalachians.
Vittles, pizened...
I know half of these. I'm over the mountain in Franklin. I'm loving this! I was all set to go off on someone, but you're actually from around these parts so I'm good.
i ain’t heard anyone around here use sigogglin. that’s a neat one tho. we use cattywampus or off kilter. idk if either of them is appalachian or not
Cattywampus is a great one too!
Cattywampus I used a lot growing up. And when I was in high school back in the 90s, people would call somebody "wampus cat" if he was a big ol boy. But yeah, cattywampus was a common one for crooked. Cockeyed was what we've always said the most. Now the most common one I hear when I'm back home is "whopperjaw".
I say both Catywampus and off kilter. You know he's off kilter a little off bubble. Or that's not square its off kilter. Or that not quite right its all Catywampus,, I'd say around swain and Jackson. That's common talk round these mountians,,
I'm from east tennessee and we use both of those.
I have used, heard, and still use so many of these.
Directly...is the same as Presently...Imma carry him over to the store presently.
*"Bawls"* - _That baby boy has the biggest hands and feet and bawls... Bawls all the time!_
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Ron-we use bawl for cry too 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia yup...and in the Rockies they also use --bawls-- to serve up them things...was it pebbles, gravel, stones,ahhh let me what did they call them things on the menu...oh yeah...boulder oisters but they wasn't sheep they was big bulls they was fix'n up not them sheep...hope that wasn't a baaaad joke...I mean takin' in appriatly...
My dad used to tell that joke too😂
@@Gardendreamsforme Yeah, I heard it about 50 years ago, so I guess it's a 'second generation' thing.
@@RonRay same generation, lol
I like the way yall talk. Hearing some familiar words yall use makes me feel at home. Never gave it much thought but it seems a whole slew of words I grew up with in Southern Illinois might translate over to Appalachia.
My paternal grandmother was from Anson County, NC, which is in flat country. Apparently Scots-Irish there talk just like mountain people.....lotsa Scots-Irish in the hills too.
Probably bc Appalachian people ARE Scots-Irish descendents. At least that's what documentaries say. :)
Beautiful! Reminds me of NC when I moved to Highpoint n.c. And worked furniture factory! That’s was 1972! Myrtle beach for fun!
I grew up in West Virginia. I have only heard a few of these. I think some of these words may be more Tennessee than Appalachian in origin.
Most of them reminded me fondly of my great grandparents in Tennessee.
Really North Carolina, especially since TN was NC back in the day
I was born in South Easter Kentucky, Floyd County, and I totally understood everything said here! Lol
If I'd tell my dad a joke, he'd tell me, "That's a hum dinger!" I can go on and on. My dad was from North Carolina and mom's roots were all from Virginia. Dad would not refer to a grocery cart as a cart, he'd say, "Throw that in the 'buggy.' "
And do you want that in a poke?
A sack. Or bag.
No thanks I’ll just carry it.
Hum dinger used to be used that way all across the country, (at least certainly in Oregon) but it’s sort of faded away. I partly grew up in Saskatchewan in Canada, and buggy was definitely the word we used in the store.
Lived in Wheeling West Virginia for four years. Often heard the following "Shut the light" = turn the light off, "Polk" or "Sack" = Bag,
One I used to hear in WV years ago, "I clum that hill" (climbed) I believe that is actually old English.
I knew of a Cajun man who worked in the oil fields. He was up on a derrick when a thunderstorm came. He spoke about how he got down in a hurry when he "unclumb" that derrick.
@@DrMerle-gw4wj That makes perfect sense, but Cajun, hum - a lot of cultural influences there~~~interesting. As a side note: I made some Jambalaya last night that was so lively it about clum up the side of the pot!
UK : "Stog" is wonderfully descriptive; love it. We'd use "clump" for the same thing.
I've heard sigogglin' all my life ... means something is outa keelter. ;-)
Sam-it's a great word 😀
A laying hen is an acceptable gift for a pounding. That is how my grandparents started their flock in 1922. I am a North Carolina flatlander, but I have heard most of those words.
I'd be tickled to death with a laying hen 😀
I like the idea of a 'pounding' party. I just might try to get that going in my neck of the words in Ontario! :)
I knew an old timer from West Virginia. He would say things like, "Those boots walk pretty good" or "them beans eat good". One of a few men I have known in my life that made a difference in who I grew up to be.
James-I'm glad you had him in your life 😀
When my mom would get mad at me she'd say, "You keep it up and I'm gonna play Home Sweet Home on your head." Or, "You keep it up and I'm gonna drum you one!" I shared on another video how she'd tell me, " I don't give two hoots and a holler."
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I love these videos! I am from Georgia and I recognized some of these words and still use some of these words. Toboggan, directly, commence, I also say fixin’ to, a shopping cart is a buggy. When my girls were little and they would be miss behaving I would say don’t be ugly and my northern in-laws thought that was so cute.
Your daughter is a spitting image of you and is cute as a button!
Thank you! There's actually two of them-they're twins 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia And the comment is true for both!
It’s funny because I knew the meaning of a lot of those words already by listening to my kin through the years.