Is Saying Again Instead of Against an Old Appalachian Way of Talking
Howdy, Y'all.
Maps are essential in locating and describing where people live in our land. Some who are proficient in map talk, refer to latitude and longitude when pinpointing a specific country, boondocks or region.
However, people who live in the center of the Appalachia region spreading across the mountains of West Virginia, southwestern Virginia, western North Carolina, northwestern Due south Carolina, northern Georgia, Alabama, eastern Tennessee and Kentucky are chop-chop and hands identified not by lines on a map, but past their dialect.
My home is located high in the mountains of West Virginia — Breadth: 38.28 N, Longitude: 80.84. I speak the mount dialect of the fundamental coalfields of West Virginia: "Hullo, How are Y'all? I live in the holler by a crick close to my kin."
My parents migrated to central West Virginia from Southwest Virginia. They held on to their Virginia accent which was noticeably unlike from their children'due south spoken language. They said things like: wite, nite, calorie-free, youins.
Due west Virginia is the boundary state between the North and South. There is no single Due west Virginia dialect. Instead information technology depends on what office of the state you live in.
For instance, if y'all live in the northern part of the state, which borders Ohio and Pennsylvania, the emphasis is more northern. The chief mark being the long "50" audio. Residents in the interior of the country speak more similar people from Kentucky or southern Virginia. Residents of the southern counties have a very pronounced southern twang.
Regardless of where yous live in W Virginia, nosotros are all blest with a bit of that southern twang. The farther you get into the mountains – the more than twang and colloquialism you will notice.
Modify direction in the mountains and you lot alter dialect.
So, come with me on a dialect journey into the Appalachian Mountains.
Linguists refer to the southern mount dialect as the folk speech of Appalachia. The primitive speech can be narrowed down to sort of a Scottish-flavored Elizabethan English language. Dialect variations tin can exist traced to clearing patterns. The southeastern coalfields of West Virginia were settled by miners immigrating from Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Along the Ohio River, which was more industrialized, a large number of the immigrants came from Eastern Europe.
There are communities in the southern part of the country that are almost entirely African-American. Mine owners brought in former slaves during the mine wars of the 1800s to replace the hitting miners, and because these communities remained segregated, the dialects of the southern slaves lived on in the speech communication.
I have compiled a listing of words and phrases unremarkably used in mountain dialect and their standard English translation:
Holped – helped
Heered – heard
Deef – deafened
Afreared – afraid
Blinked milk – sour milk
Weary – worry
Near – nigh
Reckon – suppose
Backset – Backset of the flu
Ill – bad-tempered
Gom – Mess
Fillum – Film
Pert-near – most
Ahr — 60 minutes
Am-Bew-Lance — ambulance (Telephone call an am-bew-lance.)
A-mite — a fiddling (Y'all're lookin' a-mite pinnacle-ed today.)
Arthur-itis — arthritis (Dad'southward arthur-itis is really actin' up.)
Bar — carry (Llnes, tagers and bars, oh my.)
Battree — bombardment (The automobile's battree is daid.)
Appreciative — owe (I don't want to be beholden to yous.)
Briggity — egotistical (The immature homo is acting briggity agin.)
Book Red — educated (He went to college — he's book red.)
Cheer — chair ( Pull up a cheer and gear up a spell.)
Choirpractor — chiropractor (If you are downward in the back, go to the choirpractor.)
Co-cola — Coca Cola, any brown soft drink (I ordered a co-cola at the diner.)
Crick – stiffness (I've got a crick in my neck.)
Ornament Solar day – Memorial 24-hour interval (We visited the family cemetery on Decoration Day.)
Ate Up – completely infected (Dave's ate up with the cancer.)
Elm — "m" The thirteenth letter of the alphabet of the alphabet. (Dial Elm for Murder.)
Far — burn (The mountain is on far.)
Haint — ghost (from haunt) (I'm afraid I volition run into a haint in that business firm.)
Hard — hired (He was the hard hand on the subcontract.)
His people — relatives (His people came from Ireland.)
Het — upset (She got het upwards over the contract.)
Hisself – himself (He built the befouled hisself.)
Ideal – idea (Endeavor to come up upwardly with a adept ideal.)
Ink pin – pen (Give him the ink pin.)
Kin – related (He is kin to most of the people in this holler.)
Outsider — A non southern W Virginian (Mountain folk are skeptical of the outsider.)
Parts — neighborhood (It is good to encounter yous dorsum in these parts.)
Pizen — poisonous substance (That snake is pizen.)
Plain spoken — honest or genuine (The people trusted Jim considering he was plainly spoken.)
Poke — bag or a sack (She carried the groceries dwelling house in a poke.)
Polecat — skunk (A polecat ran under the old building.)
Put Out — aroused or upset (The mayor was put out with the council'due south determination.)
Reddish Light – terminate calorie-free or traffic signal (My town has one red low-cal.)
Skittish — nervous (The boy was skittish when asked to recite a Bible poesy.)
Spell — a while. (She stayed on the mountain for a spell.)
Spell — being empty-headed or empty-headed. (The woman had a spell in the doctor'southward part.)
Thar — there (Thar's a pretty little pony in the field.)
Wrastlin' – wrestling (My son is on the wrastlin' squad.)
Actin' Up — pain (His injured human knee was actin' upwardly.)
Agen — confronting
Bile – eddy
Brung — brought
Deport — take or drive
Churched — excommunicated
Drug — dragged
Et — eaten
Holt — hold
Kindly — nearly
Learned — taught
Mosey — go to
Pack — conduct
Peart — well
Plumb — completely
Reckon — guess
Retched — reached
Rinch — rinse
Sangin' — digging up ginseng
Worsh — wash
Monday a week — next monday
Shore — sure
Down in the back — dorsum injury
Cut the calorie-free on — turn the light on
I don't care — Yes, please. I would like some. (Do y'all desire more than coffee? I don't care.)
Worshington – Washington
One North Carolina scholar uses the term "constellation of features" in describing the distinctive mount speech.
For example, the letter of the alphabet "t" is added at the end of words such as "beyond" and "twice" making the words "acrosst" and "twice" becomes "twicet". This pronunciation was common among English language speakers centuries agone and Appalachia is the only region that has held on to the pronunciation.
The pronunciation of the alphabetic character "i" is much different in sure words such as "light" and "fire" than in other parts of the U.S. "Light" sounds like "laht" and "fire" sounds similar "far".
Hollow becomes Butcher Holler in Loretta Lynn's song most her E Kentucky homeplace, Coalminer'due south Girl.
Mount folk are famous for coining their own words to express a thought or observation. The give-and-take "sigogglin," for example, means something that is crooked.
In rural Southern Appalachia an "n" is added to pronouns indicating "one" or ownership. So, "his'n" means "his one", "her'n" ways "her 1" and "yor'north" "your one," i.east., "his, hers and yours." Some other instance is the word "yernses" or yours. "That new car is yernses." Use of the word "pigeon" as past tense for dive, "drug" as past tense for drag and "drunk" as past tense for drinkable are grammatical features feature of older Southern American English and the newer Southern American English.
Outsiders are ofttimes confused by the use of the word y'all, meaning the 2nd person plural of you. When speaking nearly a group, y'all is full general. You know the group of people as a whole. All y'all is more specific. This ways you lot know each and every person individually in that group. Y'all tin can also exist used with the standard "due south" possessive. "I've got y'all's assignments gear up."
Here are some other expressions contributed by some of my Facebook friends: Virginia Winebrenner Sykes: This is a good site," idn't" it? I hear so many people, including my mountain girl cocky, say "isn't" this manner. Another i, I don't say, just have heard said is brefkast instead of breakfast.
Anna Dennison Circle : Whoppin – whipping; boosh – bush-league; dropped her dogie – gave birth; peak'ed – pale; gone and done it once more; smitten – likes; yonder – over there; and nary – none,
Shirley Tinney : "If'due north" is a word I've heard.
Sue Underwood Mergler : How well-nigh "over yonder"? My boys pulled me aside i solar day after a visit to Westward Virginia and wanted to know were Yonder was, because Granny was always talking about it.
Architect Levy : Back in the early ' 70s when I was visiting and photographing in Mingo County and I would enquire Nimrod Workman and other former timers I would meet, how are you doing, the answer would be, "Terrible!"
Pat Williams : Feeling "tolable like" meaning pretty proficient.
Karen Butler Britt : Stilts or Tom Walkers; toboggan-hat or sled; Jennie or mule; church building central or bottle opener; leather britches aren't pants but dried green beans. Hominy is corn kernels soaked and cooked in lye to remove it from its kernel. Huckleberries are wild blueberries. Icebox was a fridge with a huge cake of ice to keep nutrient absurd. Mule trader wasn't someone who traded mules simply would trade pretty much anything for a practiced deal.
Although this unique mountain dialect is changing, losing some of its distinctiveness, information technology is not going to disappear in the near future — with xx million people living in the Appalachian region.
Bye y'all.
Source: https://dailyyonder.com/mountain-talk/2010/07/19/
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