Appalachian Vocabulary Test - See if You Know the Words!
In this video I'm giving the girls a test on Appalachian language! I feature a vocabulary test every month on my blog Blind Pig and The Acorn. I thought it would be fun to test the girls' knowledge of Appalachian language in a video. Hope you enjoy!
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Where are tall from love to here fellow dialect like honey to the ears... I born and raised near Boone nc
We say all these words on the East Coast. Maybe, because the Irish Scotch immigrants first came to Ma. then migrated to your parts.
@@theresaclancy6091 Me too. Outer Banks NC. I garged on sallet fo days straight and had a bait. We got brogue dialect oot har.
awesome video i was about 50/50 till the last few minutes and im not from Appalachia im from mid eastern ga over by the carolina line
Lovely family and beautiful place that you live. I'm from Kentucky and married a Tn boy across the state line, lol.. I new what most of these meant. I'm homesick for the wood's and my grandma's home's. The food you cook is what I was raised on and cooked for my family.. Your daughter's are amazing girl's as is your hubby and granny. Mine are all gone now, sad. Enjoy it all, I believe that you are.. Best wish's from Cookeville, Tennessee. BTW, where are you located, I just started watching..
I am a 70 year old black female leaving in the south. I did a DNA test and have lots of white DNA. I listened to spoken words by the Appalachian people and some of those words I grew up with. I think it came from slaves from Africa being taught English and it was Scottish and Irish together language they were taught. I have both countries DNA. When I first listened to your area I said oh they sound a lot like my family lol. I'm glad I came across your channel. Thank you be bless.
So glad you enjoy our videos and that we remind you of family 😀 Thank you for watching!!
Appreciate you sharing your story, thank you!
Scottish Irish German Italian here - family from WV and OH once they came here. Hearing lots of familiarity here ❤ if you’ve never seen the movie Songcatcher, it talks about the music from Appalachia
For those unknowing Roman Catholic Irish were enslaved by an evil English king who wanted them off their Irish land so as to procure land for his bankers. The English king separated the Roman Catholic Irish women from their men/husband even. This English king sent the Roman Catholic Irish women to its Carribean island holdings forcing them to mate with sub-Saharan African slaves. There is far more egregious English slavery industry facts... but this is not the platform for "specifics". Know your Volke's history. Everyone.
My Moms side is from W North Carolina and I know a lot of the words but some I haven’t heard for many years since my Grandmother passed. Boy those girls have some deep accents. Glad to hear it. I sure miss hearing my Grandparents talking. My Grandma would always call someone no account. Lol. My Mom still can slip into her accent. Love it.
I’m from Avoca in Ireland 🇮🇪 and so many of these words are part of our vocabulary. Update 23/07/23 Speaking to my nanny(grandmother 94) some of granddads side of the family emigrated to Kentucky to work in the coal mines due to there experience of mining in the Avoca copper mines here in Wicklow Ireland. So any Moores from Kentucky we are probably related 😂
It's because most people from the Appalachians have ancestry from there and Scotland. My DNA has a lot of Irish and Scottish.
Yup a lot of Scottish and Irish immigrant workers , busted their asses and we’re not given what they were promised , so they took to the mountains and woods and made a life for themselves there.
Yes!!!! Many Irish settled in the mountains my Grandmother's maiden name was Doyle she would harse instead of how we say horse. If you look also at mountain dancing..clogging it looks similar to Irish folk dancing much love from USA
@@brucelee5576 the terrain was what they were use too while others didn't care to till the rocky soil to plant the Irish and Scottish had been doing it for centuries in there land. The area appealed to them that's why they chose to go there. My family is from the Shenandoah valley Irish Scottish English and German decendants. I choose not to live there but have a ingrained respect and love of it.
@@teresasmith8946 Your Grandmother sure had a lovely surname , the meaning of which is Dark Stranger .
So many of these expressions feel like they've been taken straight out of Northern Ireland, and used in exactly the same context. It's wonderful.
AS A KID DIDN'T NOTICE THAT THE LANGUAGE WAS DIFFERENT TO I WENT AND VISITED MY COUSINS IN MICHIGAN. AT THE END OF A SENTENCE MOST THE TIME THEY SAY EH? I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT MEANT. COME TO FIND OUT THEY DIDN'T EITHER. JUST SOMETHING THEY SAID BECAUSE THEY WERE CLOSE TO CANADA, EH.?🤨🤔🙄🥴
Yeah, I remember when I got stationed in Britain, how interesting it was to hear that alot of the words they used, my grandparents used!! We use to call the way my grandparents talked, "old English"---I never knew how literal that was!!!
Irish music morphed into country music in the south.
@@AB..__.. : As did Irish dancing. Ever watched "Riverdance", and then country folk, clogging? It's basically the same thing!!!
Yes y'all hit it on the head as a lot of people in Appalachia are of Scotch- Irish descent! The Appalachian dialect is closest to a old Scottish dialect from back in the day.
These girls are a riot. “Some people eat gizzards. There’s lotsa meat on a chicken and that’s what you choose to eat?” 😂🤣😂
My mom and grandmother got into a disagreement over the gizzards on a Thanksgiving.
My late mama used to love gizzards and my daddy does to this day. He loves chicken livers too. Blechhh!
KfC in Conway SC had fried gizzards on the menu...
Okay but when gizzards are done right they're amazing ok 😂🥰
I love gizzards and giblet gravy 😊
As a young man from a small WV town I never took pride in my heritage because I didn’t think there was anything prideful about it. But as I’ve gotten older, I see the strength and resourcefulness and wit of the mountain people who now I am proud to call my fellow men and women. Keep this channel going!!! Absolutely love it!! ❤️
Thank you Matthew 😀
You’re from the the town where Volkswagens are made?! Wow!! 🚗🚐🚙🚌
I'm a Kentucky Girl!!! I agree with you....we may not have had a lot growing up, but we know how to survive.
@@heli-crewhgs5285 No, it's where they make Wagenvolks.
Im from Roanoke, Virginia and the areas around abouts. Now living in South Florida since about 15 years old. When I was younger I was embarrassed about where I was from. Now that I'm in my 30's im very prideful about it. We are good people in appalachia and I love throwing random slang words into conversation just to get a laugh out of people in Florida. In my line of business I can make a lot of money during Christmas time in tip. I learned real quick to turn the accent up a notch around customers. They love it haha.
As an amateur linguist, I say that your work should be considered national treasure. Thank you!
Wow, thank you!
Here in the northeast, we do use fisticuffs, hunker down, ruination, and gall, although fisticuffs has a bit of a newsies'-era tinge to it, and the meaning of gall is slightly different. We might say "mired," but only rarely, and probably not "mired up." "Let on" seems to have drifted ever so slightly semantically from "let someone know the truth of a condition" to "pretend some other condition." We might use it in the latter way too here, I guess, but in a smaller ratio. It's interesting to see them have opposite takes on which way yon way is. Just kidding!
@@danielbriggs991 I have met a few people from Pennsylvania who used the word 'yet' instead of 'still' which I found extremely interesting and somewhat confusing. For example, are you at work yet? Of course I am, it's 11 am and I work 6am to 4 pm. Did you mean are you STILL at work? Or is it snowing yet? Of course it is, it has been snowing for hours and you have commented on the snow already. Did you mean is it snowing STILL? Anyway, would you like to comment on this phenomenon?
Your daughters are adorable…they make this twice as much fun.❤
It really hits me, just how much my Appalachian ancestors carried this vocabulary through the generations! I knew most of them!
A lot of these words have roots in Gaelic and the Scottish settlers that settled all along that area and there verbage from their native tongue over to English and has this morphed into the unique and beautiful language that is Appalachian 🤗🙏🏻🥰😇
Some of the older ones still had the Scottish brogue. I remember them well!
@@lewiemcneely9143 💜😇
@@Quin_79 There you go!!
You should hear the brogue of the people from Downeast Carteret Co., NC.
@@saraw8503 I have but it's not a lot different than here in the hills. Every region has their own differences but South is South, Thank God!
As a British lady almost 60 years old I recognised pretty much all the words which I was really happy about. And of course, the accent for me made it a little harder, I figured I got about half. 😆😆😆 very cool video.
Interesting that you say that. Because it’s my understanding that the southern dialect and accent has its roots in and is very similar to British. That it was a sophisticated accent as well.
A lot of West Virginians are from Ireland 🇮🇪
God shave the Queen. 😂 😂 😂
That is so neat!
@@nancyj5490 I'm from Boston and I notice that our accents are very similar to the english/british dialict. Appalachian just have their own slang words which confuse a lot. That's my thoughts.
Thank you, very entertaining. My parents were Highland Scots, and a lot of the words you used are very similar to their speech and consequentially my own . I was born in Australia and similar words can often be heard in Australian slang. Thanks again. John.
A lot of Scots & Irish settled in Appalachia
Im from the Highlands and if I ever see any Australian programmes I hear a lot of words/phrases that were used when I was a child. We have a more homogeneous language now thanks to tv and internet so young people are losing their individuality.
Yeah, I remember when I got stationed in Britain, how interesting it was to hear that alot of the words they used, my grandparents used!! We use to call the way my grandparents talked, "old English"---I never knew how literal that was!!!
I’m from the Bluegrass area of Kentucky. Despite a heavy influence of the Midwest on my culture , our language is straight out of the hills. I’m proud to say I am familiar with 99 percent of the words and phrases in this test. My mamas peoples is out of West Virginia so that might be a heap of help for sure! Some words I didn’t hear was “ fixing” as in “ I’m fixing to leave y’all!”, and my favorite phrase that ever was, I remember Granny saying it like it was yesterday,God bless her, she’s been gone now, going on 20 years. She would say , “ Honey , fore yewings go, git the poke from the boot!” She had to walk across a creek to get to the house ,from where they parked it was a pretty good ways, so she was always needing help in fetching the groceries and what-knot! Thanks for the kind reminder!
lol try this one,,, it was 1 of my moms favorites, I'm fixin to beat ya like a barried mule lol I loved that 1
My grandma would say, a fur piece and a right smart. When someone was bragging, she would say, "Don't they think their high in the papers."
The Bluegrass of Kentucky is Upland South, a relative of the Appalachian South in Eastern Kentucky. It isn't Midwestern.
@@cumbuckaroo9966, well ain’t you high up in the papers!
I’m glad to see some Appalachians on KZhead. Our people need more positive representation, out there.
Americans are represented
I'll be moving to Eastern Kentucky yo volunteer next month, I can't wait to meet the people there
The Wild and Wonderful Whites is on netflix
Why? I’m never going to celebrate ignorance in any shape or form. If African Americans speak gibberish or Caucasian Appalachians speak gibberish, it’s still gibberish.
@@buckbenelli8 Ebonics is nothing more than Caucasian southern talk.
I’m a Ulster Scot from Northern Ireland, I have no problems with any of it, occasionally their accent is a little difficult but part apart from that , its all very familiar.
That's what i was saying. I'm from County Down.
Do you speak the Scots language/Dae ye spick the Scots leid?
I'm from southern Ireland and I noticed that Katie used in her normal conversation there the phrase "More Ya". We use it here in English but it's from the Irish "Mar Ea" (Mar ya) meaning "As if" eg "you cleaned the car Mar Ya"/ "you act as if you cleaned the car". The first big migration from Ireland to America was by the Scots-Irish from Ulster who were mostly Protestants. Many settled in the Appalacians. We can thank them for the great American "Country" music tradition. The next big migration was later and was mostly by Catholics from all over Ireland who settled in some of the big cities such as NY and Boston. The Scots-Irish and the Irish have had a big influence on American culture. This was a Hell-of-a Show. Thank ya, Ladies.
The Irish and Scotts are our ancestors!
That's because Appalachia was originally settled by Ulster Scotts sent over hear to wrestle the wilderness away from the Indians. King George was a bad person, but he knew who to send for fighting....The The Scots-Irish. America still depends upon our region for the lions share of military leaders.
My family was in Appalachia before the American Revolution and then emigrated to Oregon Territory in 1852. The language, customs, superstitions, and recipes have survived and come down to us 7 or more generations later. Amazingly, I knew quite a few of these words. Thank you for posting this!
Sounds like most of us, from all over, heard these words these words growing up. These are not Appalacian words.
I am from WV and I spent a summer around a lot of Irish kids (18-23). 2/3rds of the words here were words that they regularly used.
As an Australian, I recognise a lot of these terms as old English words learnt from my Great Grandmother and Grandmother. I still use them today haha.
I was told (by people of the south) that some of the mountain people have a British accent.
@@THX-vb8yz oh wow thats interesting
Appalachia is difficult terrain so the settlers there remained a great deal more cut off from other places. As a result the culture from the 'old world' was reatined more than elsewhere in USA
History of people has been hidden. All being revealed!
Fascinating hey! Lots of descendants of Scots / Irish in both places, stands to reason some of the old words survive.
I'm 67 years old and this brought up so many precious memories of my parents and grandparents. Thank you so much!!!
Same for me @65
It’s really interesting to me as a middle-aged woman who grew up in California how many of these phrases are part of my regular vocabulary.
Exactly I was starting to think we're hillbillies too
I am Canadian from a city with strong British influence - I definitely recognize some of the individual words. It is fascinating what words have stuck, or only modestly evolved. The phrases are more challenging.
'There's lots of good things on a chicken to eat & you choose that?!" She is 😆 hilarious. Love your girls.
My Daddy loved gizzards too - who ever thought of eating them first????
I agree with her, yuk I hate gizzards and liver too.
@@randeebecker2455 what about the claws? I just can’t understand eating that…
I have to agree with her! Lol
As Hank Hill says, "Now there just trying to sell us parts of the cow you throw away."
😂 I'm an almost 60 y.o. Black woman & I knew almost ALL of this Appalachian vocabulary/definitions. I was raised by my Grandparents, but they were from Louisiana & Mississippi, so I've no explanation. I also grew up eating a lot of the foods associated w/Appalachia, so I've no explanation 🤣😂🤦🏽♀️.
You ju8st can't get above your raisin', Bless Your Heart!
Same here. I know many of these words and have eaten and know how to cook most of the delicious dishes!
@@indigoigbo4862 Nobody's going to starve in the South. Might die of heart attacks but not starve!
@@lewiemcneely9143 agreed lol
I'm from MS too and I know all these words. I don't know the connection either.
It’s lovely how many of these words have become the vernacular in America. Both of my parents are from Philadelphia and New York and they used many of these regularly. Now I know where they came from. Thank you!
My great grandmother ,born in 1909 on farm on a mountain in north east Alabama was my baby sister.i am 51 now and live in a different part of applachia now but hearing you say these words and phrases brings back all those memories.and yes I still use some of them and so does my kids and grandkids..thank you for trying to preserve our heritage...
My great-grandparents moved from Ireland to Tennessee. I'm proud to say I knew most of these. I'm glad there are people keeping Appalachian history/language alive!
Mine came from County Claire IR to Flemingsburg Kentucky. PROUD of my Mountain roots.
Before of after 1840? I have Scotch-Irish family from Ulster than arrived in the early 1700's and Irish family that came after 1840. Also a scattering of Highland Scots and English from the south. Has to be a Welshman in the woodpile somewhere too. LOL Also late arriving Germans 1880's.
I'm from the Missouri Ozarks and it's fascinating how much of our culture and regional dialect is descended from the Appalachians. I would say that I knew about 80% of these terms.
Me too...people think my accent is from texas
Yes. I lived in the Ozarks for several years in the '80's and heard a lot of these words and phrases used, especially by the older generation. One word I remember that I have not heard of before or since was "donnick" used to mean a large rock.
I watched an interesting video once about American accents and a lot of the westward expansion from the south came out of North Carolina for some reason I can’t remember. But you could directly see how the Appalachian dialect spread west from there.
I'm wasn't raised in the Ozarks , although people were from all parts of MO. I recognized many words!
I was raised in Kansas and the Bronx but my grandmother and grest aunt were from north Missouri and this is the vocabulary i carried with me wherever I went. My sons favorite saying is "crazier than a hoot owl "
So nice to hear that accent and those phrases again. Miss Appalachia. Great job raising those young ladies! They respect each other, their mama, and themselves. Thanks for this video.
So glad you enjoyed it 😀
Absolutely adorable daughters and super fun hearing all those words! My husband’s from North Carolina and I cannot tell you how many those words I’ve heard him use all these years. Thanks!! Reminds me of the dictionary of lost words. 👍
I love the Appalachian people, they have beautiful hearts!
"stogging means the ground has provided you with resistance" I love eloquence with a southern accent. 🥰
I’m a born in California and lived all my life of 67 years in cali, but my folks and ancestors are from appalatchia, and hearing ya’ll speak with such a beautiful accent brings back great memories thank you so much.
I'm from southeast Ohio, and I say SO MUCH of this! I never realized that a lot of my accent and vocabulary is Appalachian. This was so fascinating.
Of course: southeast Ohio is almost West Virginia.
My grandmother used a lot of those words. Always thought it was interesting how many Appalachian words and phrases have remained unchanged from old Scots-Irish
Most Appalachian people are from Scot/Irish decent
I believe that's why Ralph said that.
@@capnkirk933 - That we are. I can trace part of my roots to Scotland, when my ancestors arrived in the 1800's, as well as the Cherokee Nation. I have an ancestor that was lost on The Trail of Tears. No record of her after a certain date.
I'm familiar with a number of 'em. I grew up in the Virginia Piedmont, less than 20 miles from the Blue Ridge.
I have scots-Irish Heritage too... that must be why I knew so many words. My great-grandparents and grandparents said most these words. I wasn’t understanding why I knew so many..and use so many. I’m just a small town, bare foot Missourian. I thought everyone said ov’r younder. Lol. I can go back many generations to just right here. Thank you for this comment. It was nice to learn this is where these words stem from.
Y’all are salt of the earth people…need lots more like you folks.
Yeah, no. There were some pretty big assholes up in NY, but these folks take the cake. If you're not from here, or looking to buy meth, I'd keep driving.
@@ilovebutterstuff dang man. Won’t you chill? You seem upset. These folks seem as nice of people you’d ever meet. I don’t understand how you could be so ugly to them on their page. They’re not saying anything remotely offensive to anyone. Regardless, I will say a prayer for you and I do hope God supernaturally blesses you my friend. Everything’s gonna be alright.
I'd argue we've got wayyyyyy more than we need.
@@rudyallen4 alas he is saying the truth. Not about ALL of the people, but sadly a lot of them nowadays. Can't argue with truth. I will say a prayer that you open your mind and learn to listen instead of turn to ignorance when you don't like what you're hearing.
@@thedawg2023 thank you for the prayers my friend
My mother's family is from rural Georgia, she's half native (t'saligi) and white. And i grew up hearing almost all of those words from them, i just didn't remember all of the meanings for them. Some of the meanings i do remember though! This video is giving me serious nostalgia. The accent is just like theirs and visiting the south has always been so pleasant,southern foods,hospitality,cultures and wilflife just can't be beat for me. It's good for the soul.
I grew up just off of the Blueridge Mountains in Southwest Virginia. Most of these words I heard throughout my younger days and adolescence. It’s fun to hear them again, it’s like being at home!
Katie is hilarious. I could listen to these girls talk all day. Love their accents.
Not bad on the eyes either.
I love how cute these girls talk. I’m from West Virginia but I have lived on the west coast for longer. I love the accent and happy when mine returns occasionally. “Some of this just ain’t true”. So cute
I was born and raised in California, my grandparents were from East Tennessee and west NC, my Popo kept his accent till he passed. I have the normal California non accent. I moved to the south for a while, people couldn’t understand me. So different the vernacular is from region to region. From being razed with my grandparents, I knew a lot of these words.
They're adorable!
They are very cute
I agree. Love the way they talk, interact & obviously the way they look.
Im from Lafollette Tennessee and im right proud of us! Thank you good ma'am! ❤❤❤ Im part Cherokee, part Irish, and part Hawaiian. My papaw was Cherokee and my mamaw was irish on my momma side and my daddy is Hawaiian. Im Appalachia proud as the day is long! ❤❤❤
I was pleasantly surprised at how many words I knew because we use them here in New Jersey. The Appalachian Trail runs through my State...70+ miles worth of it, and also Pennsylvania, where I spend a lot of my time performing. This was a great video! Very enjoyable!
As a guy from England that lives in the Midwest, it's crazy to me how many words I've heard used before in the UK. Also, you guys have thee best accent in the entire world.
Thank you 😀
My husband came over from England...and we live in Iowa too!
I'm from East Midlands and I'm the same - so many words are the kind of thing we'd say, particularly in th North, West Country and East Anglia where the culture hasn't been taken over by the South counties. I'd be curious to know if Appalachians use words like jitty (alleyway), croggie (give a lift on a bicycle), rammel (trash), larrup (slap or add thickly), snided (busy, congested), mardy (sulky)?
@@avaggdu1 The only one I'm familiar with is larrup, but we would say larrupin to mean something is really good to eat 😀 Thank you so much for sharing the words. Hopefully if someone else is familiar with their usage here they'll chime in 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia Aye, 'appen. I asked me mam what's fer dinnah an she said "shit wi' sugar on!" so I asked me nan to larrup some jam onna cob but nana 'ad a cob on an she gave me a larrupin' instead! Ta-ra, mi duck! (Yes, quite. I enquired of Mother Dearest what repast she had prepared for our evening meal but she declined, so I asked Grandmother for thick jam on some bread but she was in a bad mood and gave me a heavy-handed slap for my trouble! Farewell, my friend!) 😄 I can see how larrupin' something like jam, whipped cream or honey on anything would be good to eat so that makes sense.
Enjoyed watching this. The Scots-Irish left their language in the Appalachian Mtns. and it has, pretty-much, stayed there.
It is a joy watching these two ! Great personalities !
That was entertaining and informative. I only knew about 10% of these words... I didn't even know how to say "Appalachian" correctly! I lived most of my life in California, but I'm in the south now and I am enjoying the people. Thank you!
Yeah, actually, these are the very first Southern people ---ESPECIALLY Appalachian people---that I have EVER heard pronounce it that way (short third "a"). Everybody I've ever known/met, in the South, pronounces it with a long third "a"---and, if someone pronounces it with a short "a", they were a Yankee!!! When I hear someone pronounce it with a sort third "a", it's like fingernails on a chalkboard, to me!!!
Your daughters are so lovely & their smiles are infectious! You must be so proud of them! Thank you so much for sharing these bits of Appalachia vocabulary with us!
I really must agree with Jimmy. Your daughters are are wonderful.
I’m Southern from Louisiana and this is the vocabulary I grew up on. The two young ladies are absolutely beautiful. I got such a kick out of their answers.
I am proud to be a West Virginia native. The people were real down to earth good people. I lived at the head of the holler with my parents, grand parents, great grand parents, aunts, uncles and cousins. We all worked the land. The men worked in the coal mines at night and worked the land during the day. A great life that I did not appreciate until I left for the military. Wish I could bring it back.
My family were early Ozark settlers in from Appalachia. Not only do our accents get confused with those from Tennessee, these words are in my everyday language😂. I work corporate and confuse so many not from the hills😂
My mom lived all over the south and I was born in Texas. I knew a lot of these, and she would’ve been tickled by this list. She’s gone now. One word we always said was “tump”, like “The bucket tumped over.” My northern friends never heard of it!
Omg I haven't heard that word since I was a small child.
Haven't heard that, only, "the bucket turnted over."
What's a Drump ?
Tickled pink I’d hope!
Past tense of turned/dumped. Simple as it can be. And hillbillies always concentrated and ran everything together. I ought to know!
Thank You for the terminology lesson of my Scott-Irish lineage. It explains how this language of around 10 generations from North Carolina through Tennessee and ending up in Western Oklahoma with my relatives.
Same in the Virginia mountains....
My family has been in southeastern Ohio and West Virginia since the early 1800’s. I’d heard a lot of these words growing up and use some of them myself. I had no idea that most of these were Appalachian. I had always grown up trying to hide the part of myself that I thought was different or “country” but now I know that that part was my Appalachian ancestors and I’m proud to raise my kids to be proud of their Appalachian heritage.
Some of these words or phrases come from English and change through accents and distance from the original speakers. "Breeches" in older English becomes "britches" in the American South. With the distance from England, the melding of different accents from England, as well as Scots, Irish, and Scots-Irish, and a lack of formal education, these words develop. And they are colorful.
I love how down to earth and blunt southern girls are lol. These two are the cutest. Always been a sucker for a woman with a southern accent anyway. 😍❤✌
GSM..great state of Missouri..I thought all of us were patriots...f j b
My mom used to call me”nubbin” all the time when I was a little girl. 😊 She was raised in the North GA mountains, and would’ve had her 97th birthday this year. ♥️
I will always be "snooks".
I used to have a dog who was missing one of his back feet and my mom always called him Nubbin.
What's a nubbin? My wife has been calling me that and she's a Michigan Yankee. Oh and weenus, she called me weenus. Her grandparents are originally from Kentucky and Tennessee though.
@@kentuckyearl8202 nubbin as per the dictionary is something (such as an ear of corn) that is small for its kind, stunted, undeveloped, or imperfect. It is well known in the South as a term of endearment for a small child who is still developing.
@@Dobviews 🤣 nice. I'm a small, imperfect, but developing child. I'll let her know. Thanks 👍
I was raised in southern Appalachia. I learned a few words today and heard many that I used growing up and still use today. Ive moved away now and have a better understanding why people don’t understand what I was saying. Thank you, for the video I enjoyed learning about my way of speaking.
I find it endearing, listening to these two lovely ladies talk. It’s sweet and simple, an innocence .
It is amazing to hear these words from the Appalachia natives. I live in the Scottish Borders and a lot of this terminology, slightly different but still has the same meaning. Like the word - baite - still means to eat here in the borders. Each town in the borders has its own accent and dialect. Yet there are words they use to explain the same thing. Thank you for the lesson in Appalachia dialect. It’s interesting to see how languages have evolved and the roots of where they have come from.
Isn't it fascinating? My family on both sides are from the Blueridge mountains Shenandoah Valley of Virginia it is a beautiful area. My ancestors were Scottish Irish mostly, English and German. If you look at mountain dancing they call it clogging to me it looks similar like Irish folk dancing or Highland Dance. We are all connected my friend. Be safe in these times
The Scots Irish did migrate into the hills of Appalachia for some time and formed a subculture there before the Revolution.
I would love it if you would make a list of all the words she mentions that you have in Scottish. (I realize scots speak english, but you know what I mean.)
Appalachian girls are amazing. Truly a breathe of fresh air. Identity is something America has lost. Many adopted the California accent but I find their accents genuine and classic.
@T I found that Californians do not have an accent as such. There are so many people from so many different places, that they all loose their individuality after a short time.
@Faggot Rotten I agree! I want out of this state. California isn't what is used to be. I long for a state with rich history and good people.
@@JessJoanne Spoken like someone who has never traveled anywhere in California. No rich history or good people? You sound like someone who's grown up in a big city like San Francisco or LA and romanticizes the rural life without realizing there's plenty of it right in California. Hell, go out to parts of the Central Valley and you'll find plenty of folks who don't sound too different from this.
@@mkhedart0mt0avari thank goodness I don't live in a big city. I have watched my town change quite a bit though. And it is sad. I want to travel and explore the rich history. That is all.
@@JessJoanne Sorry to hear that. And I apologize if I came across aggressive. Just see too many people acting like California is a monolith when there's so many different places, cultures, and ways of life here.
I've listened to my Meemaw speak these words my whole life and it gives me so much comfort! I appreciate these videos, sending y'all love from KY💙
Y'all are bringing me back home to Arkansas 💕🤗 Thanks so much, I needed to hear these awesome accents again!
This is fascinating. My Scot-Irish ancestors (and my spouse's too) came from Appalachia generations ago yet these words are still in our vocabulary. As we age our Appalachia accent gains strength. Wash-> Warsh
My mamaw was like that, fire=far Long on the r lol
many of your words would have come from scotland with the early scots settlers. english and welsh too.
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@@coltoncain2726 Man, in class I got a ribbin for saying war when I meant wire. Pretty funny
I could watch these two forever! More quizzes please! They may not want to, but they are very entertaining:))
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I love this! Your girls are so precious! I enjoyed! Thank you for sharing 😊
Boy, a lot of the words left me bumfuzzled. What a great channel. Most of my family had roots in the Appalachians and I heard these words in context at some point over my 65 years. I love using them in conversation from time to time just to see folks expressions... Priceless! Keep up the good work!
My 5th-grade son had a substitute teacher for a couple of weeks, she was originally from Appalachia. She was full of colorful expressions like "Ah c'd do this 'til the cows come home" and "you sit real tight now, I'll be back in two shakes of a lamb's tail." The kids really enjoyed her time there.
I'm from South western Virginia and got about 70% of these right. Some I didn't know and others I only hear our old timers use. Thanks for keeping our history and culture alive because I feel like our younger generation have lost a lot of our linguistic heritage.
I’m from Southwestern Virginia. I’m from Vansant Virginia or the big town of Grundy Virginia. I now live in Nashville Tn
I'm from Roanoke
I blame us always being told that it was a disadvantage and that we were dumb by talking that way. I'm glad I have grown to be appreciative for my Appalachian heritage and accent. It unfortantly took me leaving home to gain it. Now I'm always missing the mountains.
Rap culture has been taken more seriously that they've made a urban dictionary I said the same thing in discovering it " what in tar nations " 🤣
I’m from Wythe County Va. I’ve been gone from there for 30 years. But the values and attitude of Appalachia never leave me.
I'm amazed how much Appalachia language I was raised with in Northern South Carolina. Apparently my Scots-Irish heritage came from western North Carolina and moved into South Carolina. I love this and learning more about our heritage.
My families are from Louisiana/ Mississippi by way of S. Carolina in the 1800’s. I was born and raised in Texas. So many of these words I grew up with.
@@dianem4919 Texas is South. HAS to be! And some of the SC folks just waller words around a little bit. Like the politician that said SOOTH for South.
Appalachian dialect is the base for most Southern blue collar folks. Usually in the rhotic R that really gets on my nerves with folks who are playing someone from the South they fail to place R's consistently. You go hard R or just go full plantation Belle (which is rare outside of older ladies in my neck of deeeeeep southeast Alabama)
Some great reminders of my memaw, granny, and papaw when I was growing up.
My grandparents were from Green Cove VA and this is how they spoke. How my dad spoke. When we had a massive family reunion in the 1970s, people came from all the hollers all around the area. There were hundreds, and they all spoke like this. I've never seen anything like it since
My grandfather spoke an Appalachian dialect, and with a strong accent, and he used a lot of these words (plus a lot of uncommon ones.) It could be hard to understand him at times, though I understood him pretty well since I grew up hearing it from him. He learned it from his dad, who was originally from a little insulated pocket community in the Smokies. He left when he married a woman from the Cherokee reservation and moved south. I did a living history project before my grandparents died. I interviewed them when I was in college, and I’m so glad I have those stories now, as well as a record of Papaw’s dialect. My dad and aunts don’t speak that way, and their accents were much more moderate, so it’s really interesting (and a little sad) how quickly we lose regional dialects and accents. I barely have a southern accent anymore after living abroad for the past 10+ years, and sometimes I miss hearing it.
I've got the worst/best drawl of my whole blamed family and we're all natives. I was in the Army with 2 Joyzee guys and got so I could mock them to a tee. I still do it to the Yankee friends around here but always revert back to my hillbilly roots.
You should send a copy to the Museum of Appalachia in Norris TN. They're affiliated with the Smithsonian Institute. I'm sure they would appreciate it and it would be available for researchers! 😀
Blatherskith is about the only one we don’t use here in Eastern Kentucky!Your daughters are lucky to know most of the words.
Angel W,I sure would like to share some of your Stories of your grandparents.
It's great you said that bout your grandparents my great grandparents were from way down in Florida but they had the best accent but my papa didn't have it as hard as them and my mom ain't got one at all or at least it's very modern I moved to Appalachia PA and went to visit my mom and granny and they say I done lost all my accent but up here the PA folk say it's a southern accent lol I said to my Ma I'm a man with out a country but if I move back to North Carolina and maybe my accent will fit right in
I live around Oconee SC all my life and I hear less and less people talking like we do. I enjoy hearing these youngins talk. Thank you
What a delight! My people came from Appalachia ...my grandma and grandpa moved a state or two Midwest. I grew up in IN, then moved to southeast Massachusetts. Served a tiny church near the coast for 26 years...many of the words you quizzed the girls on have been used in my vocabulary, and the cadence and rhythm. I never thought of them as Appalachian...they were just the my dad's folk talked when we visited. My congregation had their own talk and cadence. There were times we 😂 at each other. Wish l'd run across your channel before I retired! Much enjoyment. Thank you.
Spent some time in Murphy two years ago and it was so beautiful up there. Can’t wait to go back.
"The ground has provided you with resistance" lol … I laughed my butt off at that one
Such beautiful young ladies. Their voices and accents have surely stolen the hearts of every young beau for a hundred miles around.
Can't believe you girls weren't invited to many parties! You're smart, beautiful, funny, all those people missed out on making memories with you! Great video, looking forward to watching more.
Yeah, I don't believe they don't get invited to parties. Those two are the definition of fun.
I was born and raised in Central Ohio, but my Mother's Parents were from Ironton, which is on the Ohio River just North of Kentucky. Although I did not come close to knowing all of the words in your quiz, I was amazed how many of them I was familiar with, just from hearing my Grandparents talk, as I was growing up.
I love the Kentucky/Appalachian accent. It's so beautiful
I read a book called how Scots invented the modern world! It explains how we talk now, and how the southern language developed. Crick-creek, etc.
my god, such lovely accents on those two, esp the girl in the brown jumper! great video! thanks!
Why am I now in love with your girls? Natural beauty in both of them, their smiles and their personalities are golden. Not to mention their cute accents.
As a northern Canadian 🇨🇦 (1,000 miles north of Toronto) I was surprised to hear many of the Appalachian words are identical to ours & have the same meaning in our vocabulary… Cheers from HudsonBay Area 🇨🇦
(Common (Scottish) ancestry could explain why both areas use same & similar words...)
I'd like to someday visit your Area, it must be beautiful there and it sounds like our vocabularies are similar enough I'd feel welcome there- I'm sure my Scots-irish heritage is evident in my speech.
Same. I’m from northern MN. These are more old fashioned slag words.
Agreed
U live in a store ?
My Scots Irish and Welsh ancestors on mom's side moved from Appalachia to Big Woods, rural southwest Louisiana in the 1800's. When I was growing up my grandparents talked just like this. Grandpa showed me how to "shuffle dance" similar to clogging. They used to sit out on the porch in the evenings and play "the old songs" on banjo, fiddle and harmonica. Same cooking ways, too. ❤
I was born in CA and left there in '48 at the age of 10. We relocated in AR at the bottom of the Ozarks. Needless to say, I had to learn a new language. I remember my neighbors speaking a little strange. At the time I was unaware of the Appalachia language. Later in life I discovered the language of the Ozarks was just a branch of the Appalachian language. I had to learn the language just to know what was being said around me. Now in my mid-eighties your posting is music to my ears, Thank you and your beautiful daughters.
So glad you enjoyed it 😊
My dad was from eastern Kentucky. We’d visit every 2 years and our cousins spoke with this accent and language. Great people and incredible stories they told about growing up in the 20s and 30s.
I’m a Northeast Tennessean, and my Daddy spoke these Appalachian words! My Mama spoke proper English, and all but a couple of their eight children spoke more like Mama. We had a bit of trouble understanding Daddy, a lot! Humorously giggles a lot, though! 🙏❤️
Southern Illinois here - like 30 minutes from Kentucky - my maternal grandma used a bunch of these words. My uncle still does, as do the rest of that side. My family came thru Appalachia (on both sides) and ended up here in the coal mines and farming. My Mom always used proper English though. It’s fun to hear this.
Lafollette here!
More of these two please. Just fantastic!
I am from Ontario Canada and my ancestry is from Jamaica. Many of these words and phrases are similar to what I heard growing up. I was in West Virginia 2 weeks back and I always love hearing the accent.
My granny and Papaw were from Kentucky originally but moved to Ohio sometime after getting married so I grew up hearing some of these. I sure miss hearing them talk. My papaw died when I was in high school. I took it pretty hard because we were very close. Thank you for bringing up some happy memories of them.
I'm in upstate SC, Irish, Scottish and English heritage and grew up hearing most of these words. Sounds so good to hear it again! I love your channel.
I remember seeing an article one time saying that South Carolina and Kentucky had the most similar vocabularies.
@@robertwilson2007 Yes, I find that to be true. I have travelled most of the USA, and whenever I visited KY, we spoke the same, same cadence, and used many of the same words not used in others parts of USA. Got to be the Scottish, Irish, Cherokee roots!
Come across the river into far northeast ga and western Nc. All locals still talk this way. The move ins are slowly but too quickly ruining it.
Me too. Thx.
@@camjam6015 "Mountain Talk" is very similar to Appalachian but the emphasis is different. All came from Irish and Scottish but the further north you go the more German and Moravian has influence.
I am a North Louisianian and I was surprised when I knew the answer to most of the questions. I've heard alot of those things in the course of my life. Be proud you have wonderful daughters and I enjoyed the video.
I love Katie, way she describes sayings. She reminds me of my niece I was raised with.
Aww 🥰. I am from East Tennessee but have lived in South Florida for 25 years . It was so fun to come across you girls , you all are adorable 🥰!!! My grandmother lived to be 104 , born in 1896 and passed away in 2000 needless to say we heard most if not all those words lol . Thank you for reminding me of some of them. Much Love , Lisa
Wonderful stuff here! Let me tell you all a little story of me in Taipei, Taiwan in 1967-1969 in the Army. After a fire in the PX was extinguished, damage to the rear door of the warehouse left me on guard duty on the street. Some British ladies passing by asked me directions somewhere. After I finished talking, one of them smiled and asked What part of NC are you from. You could have pushed me over with a feather. She said she had visited SC and could recognize my accent and the way I always addressed them as Ma'am. Think about that. British in CHINA recognised NC accent so accurately.
I grew up in SW, Pa. not far from W. VA. and I knew a lot of these, but not all. But it warmed my heart.
As a Canadian (with Newfoundland roots) who spent a lot of time in the Southern Appalachians it’s a relief to hear the locals debate the meaning of their own idioms.
I am so glad I came across this channel! My Granny (1889-1987) from Tennessee talked this way. She would call a stick a "stob", and a twig a "tooth brush" for her snuff "backer" When it was time to go to bed, She would say " Hit the Tick" LOL. Our family still uses these words everyday.
I'm from southern West Virginia I knew almost everyone of these..but I've lived in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee so my dialect has changed so much over the years I sound more "southern belle" now but I know my roots. I feel it's a dieing language..good for you keeping it alive.
Aww!! I am new to this channel. My mom is from Appalachia in eastern KY. She recently told me about how her mom would say "backset". I love hearing all this. It is so endearing. I love this culture and so proud its in my heritage.
So glad you enjoyed the video 😀
I recognized a lot of the words but several I had never heard. Fascinating! ❤