Things People Say In Appalachia
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- Sharing Appalachian Language in this video! Hope you'll leave a comment and let us know which examples you use too.
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When we took our baths, we'd hear "Use a worsh rag"! Same as worsher/drar. We'd also shut the winders.
Yes! When I moved to the south at the age of 14, from the north, I was riding in the car with a friend and she told me to "crack a winder" and I knew by context she wanted me to open the window, but only just barely.
Not halfway, but maybe just a quarter open.
It was just a few weeks in before I realized that you do, in fact, hear a voice in your head when you think... because mine had taken on a southern accent and instead of thinking, "I think it's going to rain", I realized I was thinking "it's fixin to rain" complete with Northeast Tennessee accent. But it was still about thirty years before I started to have an accent myself, not all the time but usually when I was very relaxed, had a few glasses of wine, or was irritated. It comes and goes.
@@ladymaiden2308 no shame.. no blame👌👍
@@ladymaiden2308 my mom can relate... moved to Tn from Ny and resisted Southrrn culture for many years. Finally she embraces it 🥰 took 30 years same as you 🤣
I grew up near Warshenden, KY., i.e. Washington.
I went to a McDonalds in Kentucky and the cashier said"circumsize your cardigan". I did not have a sweater or a knife so I said"circumsize your cardigan? The cashier said"Sir,can you swipe your card again?
I laughed to no end on this one...
That's plum funny ! 😄
Jesus Man! Classic…😂🤣
Still laughing 20 min later
😂😂😂
I appreciate the reminder that a lot of the ways of speech came from Scotland. Like a lot of southerners, my ancestors came from Scotland to settle in the American south. You can still hear some of the older turns of phrase that are used by Scottish youtubers being used across the South today.
I am a Dane and I love the "drawl" (I think it is called in English). Reminds me a bit about my upbringing in Northern and Western Jutland, which are the rural and in some ways less lucky areas (- at least some of them) in Denmark. There you will also find some specific words and pronounciations like kaut, wunni, bette or traels, which Copenhageners won't understand or make fun of/mock us for. Would love to find an Appalacian girl - would probably understand eachother better, than a Copenhagener.
Everyone has phrases and words that can overlap. My grandparents were raised in Iowa, lived in the Ozarks, and I grew up with some of the words and phrases I hear on your videos. I don’t understand why people have to nit pick every little thing to death these days. I would think they would be more inclined to think, “That’s funny...I grew up hearing those words/phrases too!” Just like you said, Tipper: people migrate to different parts of the country and bring their words and phrases with them. I truly enjoy your family and your channel! Keep bringing more of these, because I get a kick out of watching! Brightens my day, and I thank you!
When I was young and dumb I judged this dialect harshly. I thought it was ignorant. Now I realize how charming and expressive it is. I hope it remains so.
Our teacher made well to ensure we knew the history behind them from the get-go in 2nd grade. We got to talk about the history and aspects of the social culture like hard work and not going to the gym cause that’s cheating vs doing real hard work 😬😬 like machinery or idk. I really wish others would do similar things. It’s not like there isn’t schooling opportunities and colleges in these states 😅
The "elites" mock it and discourage it, thinking they are superior.
This is a national treasure.
Such a beautiful way with words. Poetry.
That is so nice-thank you 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia Thank you! I look forward to your next post 💓
Tipper has the most memorable and educational videos of my childhood .
Keep em a comin !
It’s wonderful to see you are keeping this vocabulary and customs alive. It’s true Americana.
And you grow up and want to leave, you hear, "Girl, you're gittin' above yer raisin'"
I'm from the Ozarks and I remember my Mom saying "warsh" and "raynch" when she was saying wash and rinse. It made me laugh when I was a kid because I had learned the "proper" way to talk at school. I'm 48 now and find myself talking a lot like my Mom did. Makes me smile and laugh at myself 🤣
David -its so funny how we hear our parents come out of our mouths as we get older 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia I say warsh ..tried to switch but it still sneaks out sometimes! Lol
My parents were french an when u translate french to english it backwards... An im dyslexic.. Double whammy... It took me forevr to learn to read... An from about 10 or 12 yrs old till i moved out my father only spoke french to me an bitchd at me in broken backward english... Heeheehee
My dad always says warsh but I thought that was a Pennsylvania thing.
@@suemyers7685 I say warsh too. tried to make it right by telling myself it's sounds like walk but it didn't work
I married into an Appalachian family almost 10 years ago and “rurnt” was the word I most quickly became enamored by. When I heard it in this video I squealed and clapped like a fool. 😂 I really appreciate the inclusion of “risin” too. My mother-in-law says it often and it took me so long to understand what she was saying! “My arm is like a-risin!” she says.
My arm is sore as a risin...
You're very lucky. I married into an Italian family from Brooklyn, Ny, & my late husbands uncle is Godfather of the Luccaese Crime Family.
@@wandastevens3183 I also married into Appalachian family about 10 yrs ago and I love the language.
My Momma used to say "Larripin" just a few minutes ago, when I heard you say it, I'd not heard anyone say that word since January 1993. My Momma was the last person to say it. I cried a bucket, it was like Momma was in the room with me when you said. "Larripin". My Momma made pots and pots of larripin good beans. Thank you for helping me remember my Mother. ❤❤❤
Oh my-I'm so glad it made you feel close to your momma 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia I took care of Momma until she took her last breath. She died from Lou Gehrigs disease. My son, now 40 years old said to me, "Momma, Grandma just moved to be with Jesus now, she didn't even have to pack." 🙏
@@peacefulwife5199 We had a friend who died from that this week. I'm so glad you got to stay with her and boy was your son right-that is wonderful!
I cried when I read that you cried. I miss my mama too 😕
Here in Texas I've heard "rurnt" for ruined and my granny said "rench" for rinse.
My mom and dad are from southern West Virginia. Although mom and dad moved to San Diego when I was five, I spent all my summers with my granny “back home” as I was growing up. I love these videos. One of these videos brought out a memory I hadn’t thought of for decades, the mention of pouring something like hot coffee or tea into a saucer to cool it, then drinking it from the saucer. My pawpaw used to do that. I’d forgotten all about that until I saw you mentioning it. Thanks for bringing up things that bring up nice memories. On another subject, your daughters are classically beautiful. And, in watching these videos, I can tell they’re just as beautiful on the inside as they are on the outside.
I love it too. We say “redd up” here in PA. Many folks migrated from Appalachia during WWII to work in defense plants. Appalachian music is dear to my heart as well. Please keep this special culture alive.
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@@hairy1harry1 Yeeeeee Buddy! 👍
Well, I am Scottish and we also say Redd up.
We have a thousand year old tradition at New Year called "Redding the Hoose" meaning Tidying up the House.
Many years ago while my husband was in the military and on assignment in the summer I would take our two children and drive home to the TN mountains for a visit. On one visit I stopped at a service station one town over to get gas because I wasn't sure if any stations would be open late in the day in my home town. I was tired from driving all day and overshot where I needed to stop at the pump. This was back when someone came out to pump gas for you. This young man came up to my window and said, " You wint too fur." I backed up and turned to my kids and said, "I know I'm home".
😀 Great story Delores!
Hi Delores, how are you doing
The phrase “redd up” appears in Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre. The scene is a sweet one of Jane, newly returned to the blinded and injured Rochester, combing his hair and tidying him up to lift his spirits.
One odd way of saying something that we have (we're from West TN) is "cut the lights off/on" or "cut the dryer on/off"
I had a friend from the west coast in college & the first time she heard me say that she burst into laughter! I didn't understand why... but then again she thought most of what I said was hilarious. 🤷♀️🤗❤ Southern dialect Proud!😂
😀 We cut things off and on too!
It's all good. That's the way we say it here in southern WV too. My relatives in Oregon used to say " talk for us!" Sorta " farred me up" in those days!lol
@@bradlane3662 when my friend in college thought my accent was funny, when we were at UAB in ALABAMA... I just talked for her! She was the one out of her area. I have no problem telling stories! LOL!🤣🤣🤣
@@CelebratingAppalachia We have said that all lives and still do here in lower NC...cut the lights off/on...cut the spickett off/on...cut the washing machine/dryer off/on...cut the car off/on...many things to cut off and on...turn them off/on...
I've moved multiple times and I still can't say it any other way! I've lost my drawl but not certain words. I'll always order a "sausage biscut" at Starbucks instead of a sandwich or whatever.
We grew cotton and huge gardens. Canned all our food for winter. Slaughtered jog in fall, cured it in our smoke house. We had chickens pigs and two huge mules that plowed fields and garden. The day began at 4 a m and we went to bed right after dusk.. we were poor by many standards I guess but I never that. My great grandparents table was set three times day....breakfast dinner supper like a feast for a king. Im living link between that life and now.
Sounds like a hard but wonderful life Rhonda 😀
Tipper I have heard that the southern drawl is closer to the orignial English brought over from England. I found that amusing because so many make fun of the accent and language
I've heard that too 😀
The English of the Rev war Era basically had what we know of as a Boston accent.
Apparently, many British accents evolved away from the rhotic "r" (a hard-sounding r sound) into the common British open-ended "ah" sound. Many Brits don't realize that their accents have evolved as much as ours have (as all accents do).
My Shakespeare professor said it was Appalachian dialect specifically, not Southern drawl
Yep, if you slow down a recording of a southerner, it sounds British.
We tried it in college in the 1970s and its true..
My favorite is "Braggity". I'm going to try to start using that one. I have been living in the Nashville, TN area for the last 28 years, but am originally from (and grew up in) Missoula, MT. My Nashville-Native wife loves to tease me about how I say, "Crick" meaning a creek or running stream of water. Some others I let slip out once in a while include "Ruff" for the thing on top of a house (roof), "Too Spendy" to describe something that is expensive, a "Pop" for any brand or flavor of soft drink, "Cow Pies" for what the cows leave behind in the fields, and "Cadywompus" for something that is out of line or messed up. Thanks for sharing this video about some of your sayings, they are great!
@Lil' Black Duk It's actually "Cattywampus." It's referring to a cat who might wander here and there, all over, so things get "Cattywampus" or "all messed up!"
Good to see another Montanan here. I miss hearing folks say “crick” and “you bet!”
Another one is speck = expect as in "I speck you better get that room cleaned before you leave !" 🙂❤
A great usage Tony 😀
To me it's spect!
Yes mine too
@@CelebratingAppalachia mine, too
I speck you better redd up before you leave
My mom (born in northern Ohio and whose relatives came from Scotland and England) used to tell me to “rid the table” after we were done eating. We also called the vacuum cleaner the “sweeper”, and my grandma always referred to the sofa (we called it the couch) as the “davenport”. Thanks, Miss Tipper - I really enjoy your videos!
Clean the table...sofa is ,the couch...vaccum is vac...
interesting. it's the exact same in norway but rydd instead of rid. "rydd bordet". bordet meaning table
My Grandma occasionally referred to a sofa as a davenport, & both my Mom & Grandma used a sweeper(or electric sweeper), & my Grandma always referred to a chest of drawers as a bureau.
Love the way your husband calls you Miss Tipper
Thanks Kim he's a pretty sweet man 😀
I was at one stage in India for a couple of months working alongside people from an Indian aid group. After several days I was asked if I could write my questions down as no one could understand me; my accent and speech pattern was so different. Your accents and words are a delight to my ears, and well done to the Deer Hunter for getting involved.
Thank you all
"Jerk a knot in your tail", "Had/have a cow", "Sparkin'", "Courtin", "Took a likin' to", "Rough as a cob", "Dreckly", "I reckon", "Make sport of", "An eddered saying", "Young-un", "Engine", "Over yonder", "Viddles", "Grub", "Cuttin' a rug", "Puttin' on the dog", "Glad rags", "lollygaggin'", "Shock of fodder", "I'm fixen to", "Dose of sauce", "On the wagon", "A yarn", "darn tootin'", "them there young-uns", "wrech", "Davenport", "Fetch me", "That a' learn ya', dern ya', "A switchin'", "Warm your britches", "Drawers", "Bloomers", "A dust-up", "Dont get your dander-up", "Squirrely", "Don't make a fuss", "Knee high to a grasshopper", "Frog giggin'", "Dark as a stack of black cats", "As nervous as a cat in a room full of rockin-chairs", "A stich in time...", etc., etc.
LOVE THEM! Sounds of my happy childhood and life!
I heard Tennessee Ernie Ford use some of those ragular
I’m familiar with most of these from my granny, aunts and uncles!
I'M 76 years old from central canada and my folks are 3rd generation canadians andgrowing up i heard many-many of those word or phrases, they are really cool to hear..
I've often heard "Jumpier than a long-tailed cat in room full of rockers".
I live in the southern tip of WV. But many people in this area, including me use the same terms and sound like y'all. It's almost as if there are " pockets " of us all over this country! I truly enjoy your videos!
I've got ancestors from Pocahontas County up in PA & it took me many years to realize how many Southerisms were regularly used by my family long after leaving Virginia and West Virginia. It's beautiful to hear, for sure.
My Papaw and Mamaw always used the words “Reckon” and “Directly”, pronounced “Drekly”
Great words Anita 😀
Oh my mine too. I've forgotten so much
Mine, too!
@@rhondadean5455 I’d give anything to hear them say those words again. I miss them so much, still after all these years. I am so blessed to have a Papaw from Appalachia. Mamaw was a Cherokee Indian from here in Oklahoma. I learned a lot from them both.
I grew up hearing direckly from my BigMama. She was my great grandmother from Alabama.
I'm grew up in Virginia, in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. While watching this video I found myself smiling because I remember the sayings. It was like a visit down home.
I so enjoy your videos. 💞
Yes!!! My dear late mother used the word "larrapin" and I never asked her where that word came from.😪 So many things I wish I had asked her and Dad before the Lord called them home. I knew that "larrapin" was a compliment, though.😊 Thank you, Tipper. The Lord is beyond good, kind and merciful, and has answered this for me through your video. Oh, and Dad would wench something instead of rinsing. Sweet memories!❤
I'm so glad you enjoyed it Georgia 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia Thanks so much, Tipper.
Yep, that's a good one... and "rusty feet".
@@Mycroftsbrother You know, friend, Mother would use the term jokingly about washing a "rusty neck"! Another sweet memory.❤
My dad was trying to purchase something from one of the neighbors and would say “ if you see your way clear on selling let me know.
Still hear a whole lot of this stuff here in Tennessee. Honestly till yall made a video of it I thought it was pretty regular. One of my favorites has always been if something is nasty we say that'll gag a maggot off a gut bucket.
I always heard it "would knock a buzzard off a gut wagon"
😄😄. Don't know where my Mom picked it up, but she's from North Dakota & used many of these phrases. My dad's from Oklahoma, so that's not so odd.
I'm California born and raised, but there's almost no English-based accent I can't cotton to.
in WV, gag a maggot off a gut wagon, lol
Colonial roots to our language, yep.
Next time you use "Hey" understand that it means 'Hello' in Finnish and was brought over in the early 1600's by the Finns to New Sweden, the short lived Swedish Colony on the Delaware River. The colony was absorbed by the Dutch circa 1643 and then by the English in 1664. The colony disappeared but the people continue on, intermingling with new arrivals through the centuries and expanding coast to coast.
"Hey Ya'll" means Hello to every one! "Hey Ya'll... hold my beer!" Means watch this, as I attempt to defy the nature of physics, doing something stupid, to one up the last person, while totally intoxicated!
Well pon my word and honor. Cat fur for kitten britches. We have a lot of old sayings in the hills. Appalachian Proud 🇺🇸🇺🇸
"extrey" for extra, "finna" when you're getting ready to do something! I have also heard people say "idear" like you use "ideal". So loving all of your videos!
“Finna” is a shortening of “fixin to”, as in “I’m fixin to mow the yard.”
I enjoy all of our country’s regional dialects. Some are delightful, some not so much.
Thanks again for a great video from you all. My mom was born in a cabin in haysi Virginia. We live in ohio now but mama and mom always said these words .I remember mama calling biscuits catheads. Great memories.
So glad you enjoyed it 😀
Catheads are biscuits formed by hand, not cut with a knife or biscuit cutter. 😊
@@emeyers5984 as big as cat heads....
'Redd up', to make a room ready (not 'clean' but maybe 'presentable'), is a Scots-Irish term. It's *very* common in Pittsburgh, and across Appalachia and the Frontier South. A wonderful term, and a useful nuance!
Conner Sites Bowen - SW PA girl. I use this Redd word all the time. Thanks for the history of it. Don't forget youns.
After any meal my grandmother would "redd up the dishes". I live in East Tennessee.
Thank you! I really enjoyed your video. I think the "Appalachia" way of phrasing is unique, refreshing, and seems to be a kinder softer way to make your statement.
When I hear y'all,it make me think of bro lewis my pastor, he passed at 92 1 year ago, I miss him ,he was a daddy to me .I took him up there before he passed, to see his folks, people there are so loving and gracias.thank you for the video ✝️👍❤️
I love these videos. I can hear my parents, grandparents and myself in these expressions. I think the migration and speech patterns is particularly interesting. Thanks for always preparing and presenting these videos in such an increasing way! Your friend in SC, Jane❤️🙏
Hi from Australia - some of these I've heard before but the ones I hadn't I sort of understood though. Much love to you and your family - and by the way, I love reading all the comments on your channel for the wonderful family histories that people post :)
By memaw said "pon my honor" meaning "Upon my honor" and " gag on a gnat but swallow (swaller) a camel. And "pull the door to" as in "close the door". Fond memories. Thank y'all.
Old timers in Western Kentucky used to refer children as youngins And the ice cream truck as the delli man. I may not be spelling it correctly. And as Anita Newman said I remember Reckon and Directly was very common too. Brings back memories as I have been in Las Vegas for over 22 years now. Also if my Grandfather got mad he would sometimes give me a thrashing.
Here in southern Ohio & northeastern Kentucky, children are still called young'uns. Grandpa used "reckon" & 'directly", as well. Reckon is still used a bit in the UK & Ireland. Grandpa's "directly" was different than the British "directly", he didn't mean soon, but rather some time later.
When anyone would be joking or kidding with my grandma, she would say "they like to devil me." If she was sitting and thinking about something, she'd be studying on it.
I study on things too 😀
Good ones! 💖
Hi Sharon, how are you doing
My family in southside VA would say, "I ain't steddin' (studying) 'bout that!
When we sometimes got rowdy, my Dad hollered "hersh". Changing spark plugs or oil was working on the "mortor".
My grandpa said "tar" fer tire,
far fer fire, war fer wire. Miss that man sumpin' fierce!
I love your videos. My grandmother was from Kentucky. The way you cook and what you cook remind me so much of her granny and my mom were the best cooks and I miss her so much. Thanks for sharing with us
I'm so glad I remind you of them 😀
Same. Parents from Adair Co. and this channel feels like listening to family around the table.
I'm now 69/years old from Indiana listen to your video on language brings me back to Grandma's porch listening to Grandma talk with aunt Jessie and aunt pearl they were raised in Tennessee!!all us cousin still use a lot of the words I'm in Kansas last 40 years still say those things people say where you from sir??love your videos makes me home sick
So glad you enjoy our videos Dan 😀
Grandmother, who was from Harlan County KY ( Evarts) and used to say when something didn’t smell right “ well that just smells like Kyarn”
One of my bosses at work had to get a degree in order to keep her position so she got a GED and then went to college on line. She must have thought I, a tenth grade graduate, was smart because whenever she would have to write a paper she would bring it to me to proofread. I was happy to help. Mostly it was typos but one thing that sticks out in my mind is a phrase "I was post to". I circled the word "post" and asked she about it. "Did you mean you were "supposed to?" She didn't understand. "no I meant post to". So I showed her "supposed" in the dictionary. She was embarrassed, which I thought she would be, but since it was a paper to be submitted for college credit, I thought I'd better let her know. She never told me what she actually put in the paper she submitted and I never asked.
Many times we in Appalachia speak in one language and write in another. We can readily explain our oral usages if the listener doesn't understand but something in writing has to be more concise.
Great story Papaw! You're so right if I'm writing or typing my mind chooses the "correct" word but if I'm talking my brain chooses the things like post to that come out of my mouth 😀
When my friend would act up his father would say "Cut the monkey shines"!
My family said stop monkeying around. I was shocked when a politician was accused of racism because he referred to another politician and used the same phrase.
My family used that expression and we are Yankees. Must be the Scottish Irish blood.
@@vangogo6819 My Irish mother said that all the time.
@@geezerpleasers_OG My mother was Irish and my father was Scottish and English, between the two of them we heard more sayings than you can shake a stick at,lol (that's one of my father's sayings).
You know a channel has made it when it takes longer to read the comments than it does to watch the video. That doesn't stop Tipper from acknowledging each one. I like that about you Miss Tipper. Have a wonderful week!
Thank you Roland-I agree the comments are wonderful 😀
Some of those I have never heard before (larrapin?, rusty-footed, cut a shine, quietus, redd up) but the rest and oh so many more I certainly have. My dad was born and raised in the area (Western NC) just like his dad was, too, and his mom, and on back. The history of the speech in that whole general area is fascinating and to this day you can still detect a strongly "Shakespearean" influence. I love it! To this day I know people who "start a "fahr" in'at wood cook stove wid'a match then sit down in their "cheer" to enjoy the warmth, etc.
" Don't buy a pig in a poke." meaning don't buy a thing without looking at it. A poke is a sack or bag, from French poque, which is also the etymon of "pocket", "pouch", and "poach". Poke is still in regional use in the Appalachians.
Poke is still pretty common amongst older folks here in southern Ohio & northeast Kentucky. As in when leaving a beer joint, you ask the bartender to make my last one "with wheels on it", & put it in a "poke, which means, I'll take my last beer "to go", & put it in a bag.
Very clever the way you demonstrate these words/phrases AND give us a glimpse into your lives and personalities.
Keep up the fantastic work!! 👏
I grew up in Central Texas and all these words were heard by both sides of the family ... my mother’s family was from Texas and my dad was from southeastern Alabama ... Black Scotch Irish on my mom’s side and English/Welsh French Indian on my dad’s
I am German, 30 years ago I met my husband from Kentucky. I love your postings, believe it or not, my grandma and grandpa
lived very much the same...cooking...backing...gardening...exactly the same. The music was different, my grandfather played the
“Zitter”...thank you very much for the great video’s!
We used to go to summertime lamb roasts in a neighboring town that would have folks playing zithers aftereveryone ate.
“The cornbread at Aunt Mabel’s is fair to middling.”
I remember aunt Mabels cornbread we'uns was jest a hoot and a holler down river from them.
That comes from grading tobacco leaves.
Mostly middlin.
How you doin’? …. Oh, fair to middlin’ . That’s how I’ve always heard it.
My Dad's response when asked how he was, was often either, "fair to middlin'," or "tolvill", which meant "tolerable".
Where I am from there is a uniqueness to this part of Kentucky. There is a mix of a certain amount of Appalachian culture but there is also a big influence of Amish and then the military from Fort Campbell bring in their traditions from wherever they come from. So there is quite a bit of difference between people in the area where I'm from.
101st baby!
Grew up in upper Michigan, so many of the same words!
I learnt in kindergarten that my paws was really my hands!
😀 Too cute Tonya! Thank you 😀
Here in Texas. I grew up hearing my mom say "tall let" for toilet and "fixin to " when getting ready to start something. Also, when someone called on the phone or came to the door, mom would say, "what did they allow?" Meaning what did they want or have going on. Love your down home talk and how all parts of the country have certain ways about language. This channel is such a great find!
Thank you Bebe-so glad you enjoy our videos!
Hey in Texas ! I'm in SC.
@@oldblackstock2499 Howdy!!!🤠
Is commode more common for toilet? Some people say not many say that but I do.
Same in NC for "fixing to" , "what'd they allow" and "directly" or just "d'reckly" meaning in just a little while...I'll be there dreckly.
In Swain Co. over 3000 families were displaced when the Fontana Dam came and the Smoky Mt park, some stay here and some went all over the US
That was a lot of migration! Thank you David 😀
Rusty-footed has to be from red clay dirt. The language is beautiful and lovely, It is so enlightening for all levels of English. It makes the language so rich and full. And the grammar reflects the original people's usage. I find it **beautiful**. Love the expansion of the language. I used to teach composition for college, and I finally quit because it would not allow for regional differences. I couldn't ethically correct people's usage for what was really totally "correct."
My Grandparents, and even my parents use the word "poke" for a bag still.
My grandparents would save pennies in a poke for our visits. My grandpa would take us to the store just down the hill to get a poke of candy with some of those pennies.
Poc or Pok is a Scottish word for bag or sack I have been told.
A "pocket" is a small poke. The "et" is a diminutive suffix. "Poke" mostly fell out of use, but we kept "pocket."
I was told it was called that because you poke things in it. A shopping cart is a buggy
I say "rurnt" all the time and no one knows what I'm talking about! lol I say "idee" for idea. Love these language videos!!! Keep em coming! 😊
My grandfather sang me this when I was a little boy:
"My sweethearts a mule in the mine. I drive her with only one line. On the bumper I sit, and tobacco I spit, all over my sweethearts behind".
Anyone else ever heard this little ditty. My grandfather was not from Appalachia. But was in WW1.
@Angelique Collins Don't know where my grand father got it. He was a business man in Philadelphia and as far as I know never set foot in a mine. He used to bounce me on his lap and sing it to me. One time my mom said "Sandy, stop singing that, he will remember it"...... and Ding.
My grandmother would say listen when she wanted you to be quite, step ins was underwear and I was grown before I knew wash rag should have been wash cloth
Yes...
I thank you! I sure enjoy your channel, the slang reminds me of my Grammy GOD rest her soul she was from Kentucky.
You are so welcome Rick 😀
Younses. "Younses need to quit lollygaggin' and get busy with y'all's chores."
Or youngens.
I am from Missouri and I remember my grandparents,Mom and aunts saying younses .
My family is from Tnn. I still say youns myself. They did not say lolligaggin, instead they said sanerin. Nvr heard that anywhere else and so I always wondered where it came from. "Qiut sanerin and lets go", dad would say. ?? Maybe because using a saning net is a slow process ? I dunno 🤔
"You-uns" is big here in this area, Greenup County, KY & Scioto County, OH. I'm originally from Mason County, KY, where we say "you all".
One of my favs that I still use is "Do wut now?" when I don't understand or if I didn't hear something correctly. Love the videos, by the way.
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I grew up with "rench" and "reach me that" in Georgia too. My 83 year-old grandma still says that, along with fixin'. I love the word fixin'.
Yes...I grew up with rench...fixing' to..ain't ....gonna git it...and still say them...
Growing up we always said “I might should” instead of “ maybe I should…”. I went to college in KY and I heard some of these words and phrases. I love Appalachia too. Loved you video.
Might shoulda...
I am so surprised about the different words and such because I grew up on many of the phrases and words you talked about. I enjoy watching your videos because it explains to me where alot of the words and phrases came from. Thank you so much for sharing!!
In SW Pa one often hears "nebby" Def: adverb from the root "neb"; to neb is to intrude into areas where one is not necessarily welcome. Nebby- "a person who pays too much attention to others concerns".
My coal miner Grandfather 8sed the word "ned" (short "e") as the past tense of "need". IE "If you ever ned a freind this was the feller."
Love these sayings. I am crazy for theses sayings from the appalachians. They make them fun,,,unlike any others before. All groups of like minded people who reside together for years have their language quirks. I love the Irish, the Scottish, and the Australians but the Appalachians take the cake for real fun language and I think it is because they are people of a good faith (christian) and work the language within respectful boundaries (not derogatory) which is integral in terms of respectful progression in life,,,,,otherwise it DEGRADES TO CURSING AND CUSSIN. Love the bloopers Ms. Blessings all and sundry.
I can tell you how a lot of the Appalachian Language got spread though out this great country of ours. During both WWI & WWII a lot of our young men were able to see a large part of this country that they had never seen before. But WWII was the biggest one, in McDowell County, WV the mountains had been clear cut and farmed. When WWII come about all those young men left to fight in the war and some were able to see both sides of the great country. After the war ended a lot of those young up and moved to different states, once this happened there were no young men left to keep the land cleared, so mother nature took over and the forest grew back, and all those farms were lost to history. My uncles were some of those young men that went to other states to live and raise a family and with them the Appalachian Language went too. I truly enjoy watching your videos because they keep me in touch with our special way of life. Only six more days and I will be heading back to my home sweet home. Until the next video have a great day and bless your family.
I remember an older lady we grew up going to church with. She would say if it had been raining a lot, "it's been real rainified". It always tickled me.
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"Quietus" goes back at least to Shakespeare: "Who would fardels bear that might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?" Hamlet act 3 scene 1. The "To be or not to be"
soliloquy.
Appalachian Dialect is prized and studied because it has some of the most preserved and intact use of Old(er) English words and pronunciation in the U.S. (or the world for that matter). Languages and dialects are preserved when groups emigrate and stay in isolated clusters. There are often phrases, words, dialects and pronunciation still used that are no longer used in the country of origin.
Warms my heart listening to this ,reminds me so much of my Grandmother . Bless her kind loving heart .
I remember my mom and Aunties use "ly" at the end of many words. In addition to "ideal" they would say "kindly" instead of "kind of" or "chimley" instead of "chimney." Every time I heard them say these words I would smile to myself. I never mentioned it to them even though we lived in Chicago where I was born and raised, not in Adair Co. KY where they grew up.
Your "chimley" reminds me of our family's "chimbley". 😊
Tar = tire, Far = fire, my pawpaw on my mom's side grew up in Joe, NC and called bubblegum blow chew, lol love it, thx
Love blow chew 😀 Thank you for sharing that!
Loving these videos. I'm in the Ozarks, some of these saying I have heard and some not. I always look forward to seeing your videos especially the ones about language.
Glad you like them! 😀
@@BR549-8 Thank you 😀
Hi Connie, how are you doing
Also, where I live, tires are "tars"
Same for fires..."fars"
Same here...
Another old word for tires is "casings." Old mechanic I worked with called them that. A gas pedal was a "foot feed." As opposed, I guess, to the throttle on a tractor.
"You have to wait an hour after eating before you can jump in the creek, else you'll get the cramps."
😀 Yes!
Crik
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I have heard all these words and phrases from my grandparents and even now I say to my wife "pawpaw usta say......" they were quite common even here in south Mississippi. My family has roots in Appalachia and my wife and I try to get up there every couple of years. Every time we go I feel a real connection. Thanks for what you and family are doing. Jerry
We used the same words in western Kentucky growing up
With a little variation
I love how I see so many similarities between your language and popular foods and black southern speech and black southern or just even general southern dishes. I also love your daughters' music. Thanks for sharing it.
One saying I always liked was “faster than a skeered haint “ .
That's hilarious!
Ideal for Idea reminded me of people who say Gold for Goal. Make light of is something I say. Which means something is light in important, or not serious.
My family is from Buchanan, Virginia and they use all the same words you showcase here. Instead of a brown paper bag, for instance, they call it a "poke." Love my heritage too...like y'all.
Thanks for watching! Poke is common here too 😀
Hello 👋, how are you doing
What a pretty monarch butterfly feeding on queen annes lace while you talked
I noticed as well !
I've never heard "ideal for idea, but I've certainly heard people say "Idear"
My grandparents and my mother said "ideal" for "idea". They were from SE North Carolina but my grandma had Appalachian forbears. I love your videos.
My grandparents and parents said Eye-D for idea. Lol
In northeast central Kentucky it was always "eye-dee".
Excellent singing & playing guitar & Fiddle.....beautiful girls.....how talent they are.......
I so enjoy the addition of the bloopers when you do these “uses of the words”…too funny! Blessings🙏🏻💖
Matt your so cool for saying that, classy man. You guys are so awesome, and authentic. Tipper is pure and it’s incredible to see how a strong people can produce such super cool girls, bloopers, again refreshing !
Larrappin in the UK means you would get a severe beating.
My dad spoke Cheshire dialect. When he was hungry he'd ssy he was clemming. If he was cold he was starved.
Stood me in good stead for reading the Bronte books. Thanks. Xx
Collette-thank you for sharing that-so fascinating!
I felt like I was watching Hee-Haw!! Tipper you look beautiful in that bright red!
😀 Thank you!
Don’t ever let your own language & cultural expressions disappear. In Australia, we carried on many of the sayings from places like England, Ireland & Scotland. Now, with so many different races of ppl coming here and the millennials having no idea about our rich history & culture, a lot of the sayings are leaving the day to day vernacular.
Life is change. As I get older, I wish some things could remain the same.
@@shambagoo6657 Now a days the change is in the most ridiculously stupid of idiocy this world has ever seen..
Tipper, I couldn’t agree more with you that people moved on, I think many moved westward. With them, they took their language,-customs and culture. One of the many reasons that I enjoy your channel is because much of your language and expression I know. I haven’t heard them in some time because my Nanny (maternal grandmother) used them. She would say- Cuttin a shine. She also said- acting out, and acting ugly. They all meant about the same thing. She would wrench vegetables.
I’ve done ancestry and that along with family history tells me that many of my people moved from Appalachia to Arkansas. My brother always reminds me- “They we’re hill people” 😊 Love your channel💕
I'm so glad you enjoy our videos 😀 I liked hearing about your family!
Hi 😊, how are you doing today
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We can tell you love your Appalachia…it shows.
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I'm glad you spoke about where our language comes-from, because when I was stationed in Britain, I was amazed at some of the words they used, being the same as what my grandfather used---what we called "old English".
I SOOOO love that you're keeping our heritage and culture, alive!!! ❤
If I ask my Mom where did Daddy go ...she would say ...I reckon he lit out down the road somewheres.
Meaning he left in in hurry I reckon !
Love that Kenny 😀
Somewheres =
" summers "
These just tickle me so much, it’s good energy.