This is so true. People in West Virginia are the salt of the earth. We treat everyone as they deserve to be treated; as an equal. A stranger as a brother or sister, an elder as a mother or father. We enjoy helping people any way we can. It's unbelievably hurtful that we can be so helpful to people and still be ridiculed as hillbillies or uneducated hick. Our accents may be amusing at first but if you get past that, you will miss it when you leave.
In a crazy time like this in our cities, its so refreshing watching this and I would love to visit the appalachians and be twenty years behind for a while.
@geordieinjapan oh, you can find some very interesting accents in the USA. It seems like everyone from GB or Europe thinks all americans talk in only one of 2 ways,,,,,,,like george bush or a valley girl (california).......there are hundreds of American accents. In a country this large it is inevitable
The phrase "si googling" cracks me up, its so funny!!! I wonder if this thick accent is what Suzanne Collins had in mine when she said Katniss in her book the hunger games had an Appalachia accent
I live in Southern Illinois and i am lucky enough to travel all over and what i find about accents and dialects is they vary everywhere and even just a few miles apart. Most of the people here at home came from E. Kentucky, E. Tennessee to work the coal mines and we still have that strong dialect. Tire is pronounced tar, y'all is common as well as yuins as is yuins goin to town? We are also very Scotch-Irish.
They all originate right here in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire in the Scottish Lowlands, they have given the US half of its presidents compared to one Irish catholic.
@ScottishLegendftp of course they have given the US half their presidents......because they are white anglo saxon prod, like the presidents descended from the english. what is your point anyway?
@ScottishLegendftp the ulster scots, who came from the scottish lowlands, were mostly anglo saxon. the highlands were populated mostly by descendans of the picts, who were gaelicised.
@ScottishLegendftp What about Welsh, i.e. northern Goidelic British? Southern lowland Scotland is like England and Wales, a mixture of Welsh, Anglo-Saxon, Norse-Danish and French-Norman-Flemish. There's some Pict in Lothian and Gaelic in Ayrshire and don't forget the Galgaels! Us English are just as Celtic as everyone else in Britain even if most of us are unaware of it. Lowland Scots called themselves Inglis until c. 1400 but not many would recognise Anglian in their ancestry.
The Gaels settled on the uninhabited West coast islands, every time they tried to come inland the Picts and Saxons kicked their ass, ultimately they forged with the Picts, Saxons and Norse to create the first Kingdom of Scotland, however Gaels were in the minority.
@ScottishLegendftp There is evidence of gaelic encroachments into pictland. There are many placenames indicating gaelic influence. To say that Scots Gaelic was only spoken on the island is completely false.
I grew up in the hills of East Tenn and am Cherokee and Irish,I served during VeitNam and still sound southern with my accent proud of it being southern .With a degree and married 46 years
@ NCLLP Thanks for the post, I am from Asheville,N.C. and have lived in florida for 30 years now. I miss the talk and the mountains. Plan on moving back soon!
Well I'm actually from Thailand but I spent a year as an exchange student in NC. I was surprised how local talked to me at first and had hard times understanding. It's just the same that they didn't understand my thick Thai accent. But you're right, those people are nice, honest and willing to help. I love Appalachian region and I love southern people :-)
I, too, was born and bred in East Tennessee and I appreciate my hometown area. After moving away for 5 years, coming back reminded me of how hard-working, honest, and lovable the people here are. Maybe the language is hard for the "yanks" to understand, but it makes perfect sense to me. Like canisabc, I graduated magna cum laude and I'm intelligent. However, I've found IQ does NOT a "smart person" make. The *hillbillies* here have more common sense than a whole lot of "educated people".
Aye Law,I guess I am not the only one who knows all these phrases! I grew up in Candler,NC.Not far (10 miles?) from where this was filmed =) When we lose these elderly folks,we will lose a part of our heritage :( I am 29,and my Granny is 85 and I love her dearly. I will miss her when she goes.
DON'T BE A PECKERWOOD and just make fun... Heard a Brooklyn accent lately?
KEEP THE OLD SKILLS ALIVE! READ THE FOXFIRE MANUALS AND MAKE SUMPTHIN'. .... You can find them over yander in thuh libary. They are written exactly as they were dictated by our old "mountain folk" ,which makes them great..
I think all get a bad rap actually somewhat, anyway I think it would be awful to compound them with southerners anyway their mountain folk, not planes folk, mountain folk.
im jelous of all you folks living in the appalachias and the south, i get the impression you guys keep your old values and culture, not conforming to the rest of the country which is shit, (Id know im from california) you guys get a bad rap from the media and shit... i just tell em to shut the fuck up
Appalachian english has been researched and found to be derived from Ireland.
Then they traced the accent all around USA and found all southern accents comes from the Appalachian mountain area even what you hear from truckers and CB radio talkers. LOL The video is on PBS. After watching it was I like....WELL I BE DAMMED! LOL
Thank GOD I was borne and raised in this part of the country. I wish it could stay like it was when i was growing up. But it is getting worse every year.
My mama always said hit for it, others she said ..haint for aint, dope for soda water, ye for you, fer meant far, yander for yonder, fer topper meant people who lived on the top of the mountain, poke meant sack, yore meant your, so many others I have forgotten through the years...I long to hear her sweet Irish talk again...I miss her ...and the mountains of Tennessee where my great great Irish grandparents first settled long ago. I love the fresh mountain air and simple way of life...
Wonderful! I live in the mountain region of Maryland a stone's throw from West Virginia. We have many dialects within our state but the western region is in the Appalachian chain and we use many similar words as those displayed in this video.
Many Southern Appalachian words are straight from Old English; 'hit' in place of it. Poke is from Chaucer. I recognize these words since I am from the Southern Appalachians, but I never heard 'si-gogglin'
I live in East Tennessee and I love stepping out on my back porch in the morning and looking over to the misty Smokey Mountains. I was born and raised here and I love my southern accent and it doesn't make me "stupid" or white trash. I am a college student majoring in chemistry with an emphasis in pre-medicine, I currently have a GPA of 4.1 and when I was in the sixth grade I had a reading level that matched a college senior's and I speak just like the people in the video. I love our accent.
@canisabc not to burst your bubble but most "real" Universities don't allow for a GPA to be above 4.0... an "A" is an "A" at least at UT Knoxville... might be different at a non-accredited place or a community college
@Choraligame It's okay, your right. I go to WSCC and they don't post our grades until way after the semester has ended. I calculated the 4.1 from the scores my professors gave me. I don't have a problem admitting when I am wrong and I miscalculated. It's my 2nd semester and I didn't know about the 4.0 GPA cap. My grades were posted and my GPA is actually 3.9, which I will be bringing up before I apply to ETSU. You go to UT? I like the campus but it's still a little bit to chaotic for me.
@canisabc I am an older guy i live in middle tennessee close to you probably and i love our accents as well and especially the old timers like the grandparents and such alot of my family still living that simple life me on the other hand i try to live as modern as possible being stuck in a small town it is hard though LOL like idk what i would do without my internet and my pc but then again it would be great to be off the grid entirely
@peachesnpeaches Most likely canisabc goes to a school that uses by a 5.0 scale. Most, if not all Universities in the region he/she mentioned use that specific system. It would, in other words, be more like an A.
I don't. I corrected my statement. I am new to the world of college and I calculated my gpa just like I would have in high school. I calculated it as a weighted gpa and I shouldn't have done that. I now realize how stupid I have made myself sound. lol I wish I could edit that comment.
Lmao. He says, "You stand back and look at something and well, that thing's si-gogglin'. They say, 'I want you to look at that.' 'Well what is it?' if you're building some kind of.....well that's si-gogglin', right yonder! And say that old rode going up there...that's si-gogglin'!" He's side of all over the place, but that's what he said. I'm from rural western-southern VA, originally from Denver, so I've gotten used to these kind of accents. XD
They'll stand back and look and they'll say "that thing's si-gogglin'." They'll say "I want you to look." and say "what is it?" if you're building some kind of a building and say "that's si-gogglin' right yonder." And the same if that old road is going up yonder. They'll say "'that thing's si-gogglin."
He's basically just saying that people use the term "si-gogglin'" to describe poorly built/ crooked buildings or winding roads; anything crooked.
I have a few relatives that sound like this. I have weened myself from speaking like this for the most part, but it still comes out a bit when I get pissed off at someone.
Interesting...where i live in the UK we say eving a a gog or gleggin at for having a look at. You folks should just value this. Here dialect changes lots in the space of 20 miles, so it's maybe in us to pick up on the differences and adjust to what folks are saying. It's what folks think that counts, not the way they say it.
@kingsindiandefence yeah, it was the same way here before "roads" and the "21st century" came along. here in the mountains it was so isolated, that people one one side of a mountain spoke a little different that folks on the other side of the same mountain, and people that lived up in one "holler" (slang version of the word "hollow", as in a small sheltered valley) spoke a different dialect than people in another holler. (and anybody that says that there is a "correct" english..i say BULLSH*T)
It's a way of life. You should value it as part of history, history grew it. I just read a book of short stories Hillbilly tales from the Smokey Mountains, by Patricia Graham, little snapshots of ways in these parts. Sineaters, conjuring rocks and shivarees, more part of America than Disneyworld, maybe. Rait miducks al get gooin as am late. That's how i talk from day to day. Local is what it is.
I have lived all over place. I chose to come back to KY. Like she said, I'd just as soon be in hell with my back broke than live in any of the places I've lived. When I was living and working in California, New York and Chicago, I kept my KY accent. They made the mistake of assuming that my accent denoted low intelligence, their assumption resulted in my financial gain and their loss.
accent does not determine intelligence. It just is that usually the thicker the accent the less education they have. Most people that go into higher education try and lose the accent in order to be more marketable
Did you know that "Mountain Talk" is the closest root of Shakespearean English? It completely changed my conception of the notion of an unclean language.
@theatopera Yeah, did you also know that Shakespearean English has its roots in how SOME black people speak otherwise known as ebonics...that usually surprises most people.
Ebonics was invented (yes, invented, prior to that black Americans spoke exactly like their white neighbours) in the 1900's. Claiming Shakespearean English was influenced by it is is an anachronism.
Mom and Dad moved from NE Indiana down to central KY, She hated to go,thought people would be backwards, Both mom and dad couldn't believe how nice and helpful the people in KY are,
Both wished they would have moved down 40 years ago,
I could understand everything these folks said, but that's probably because I was watching them say it. When I lived in West Virginia, I had some real difficulties understanding certain people on the telephone. I guess it just takes getting used to.
I've "purt neer" lost the dialect I grew up hearing my older family members speak, but the music of their language will live in me always. RIP Great Aunts Bertie and Frances.
I've "purt neer" lost the dialect I grew up hearing my older family members speak, but the music of their language will live in me always. RIP Great Aunts Bertie and Frances.
Lol --I hadn't thought of "Si-gogglin' " in years! In the area of eastern Tn. where I grew up we add the letter H to words that don't usually have it --as in H'yonder,H'ain't & H'it. Yonder ain't and it. :-) And of course H'ain't isn't to be confused with a haint..which is a ghost or spook.
I have a Upper Midwest accent. Most commonly known from the film Fargo. However, my accent is very weak compared to the folks that live in Northern Minnesota. Any woman or man over the age of 50 and living north of St. Cloud has a very deep "Fargo" accent.
As an Appalachian and an English as a Second Language teacher, I sometimes use this to illustrate the diversity of English dialects. Really, I think that the Appalachian dialect, like much of the region, is maligned by the rest of the country and the local culture should be studied more.
Well done to the documentary maker. This stuff could have been lost or forgotten. Most envious of those people and their lifestyles. Who else here is willing to admit it?!
My whole family is from this region, and I understood every word. At least these people say what they mean and are who they say they are. What you see is what you get. Too bad the rest of the country isnt like them.
My whole family is from this region, and I understood every word. At least these people say what they mean and are who they say they are. What you see is what you get. Too bad the rest of the country isnt like them.
A lot of my relatives speak like this, but they aren't Appalachians. I guess they just have a really deep southern accent. I have one, but it's not as nuanced.
I grew up in cabin creek, WV & of course I understood every single word! The majority of my family speaks just like that & I tend to do so when I'm drunk or sleepy lol. Watching MTV when I was younger caused me to purposely change the way I spoke as well as English class. Don't get me wrong now** I still adore my people!
Plum, Poke, Stout,Yonder, are all words spoken in England in past times. My Grandad would say "look yonder" "A pig in a poke" Interesting. I wonder how Americans spoke 300 years ago ?
A lot of these words are just southern words. My parents were from GA and they both used words like this. I had to laugh at "poke" because my mom still uses that word to this day. But their ancestors did come from this are (NC) so I guess some of that moved with them. (And my granny always used to call Coke "dope." lol)
My grandpa was second generation Kansas farmer with family from County Cork, Ireland, and he'd always say "het up" instead of "heated up." Example: We're gonna het up some supper an eat.
@Wpatri04 I agree. Wish I was there but as a local not an outsider. Kind of comforting to think about their ease with being behind these chaotic times.
@10:12 He makes a good point. I live in a large city. I don't like my neighbors, don't associate with them. I don't want to get to know people and they don't want to get to know me, but I'm happy this way because people stay the fuck out of my business and I'm more than happy to stay out of theirs.
@TimmYayhooray Supposedly our use of "poke" stems from a hardened pronunciation of "pouch". (see the ch/k exchange between English "cheese" and Frisian "tsiis", vs German "käse" and Dutch "kaas")
@sanjuancb Yes, that's it! I JUST commented, saying the same thing (leaving out the Oklahoma part), but my folks are from Oklahoma too, and they sound identical to the Appalachian accent.
I am stunned by the judgment of the people writing these messages. What makes people think that speaking Appalachian sounds uneducated? I speak "Hoosier" with a smattering of Appalachian. However, people listen to what I say, not how I say it, and I am quite successful in my line of work (I'm a social worker, but still, I am in administration). People do notice that I speak differently, but they don't focus on that. If ya'll are judging people based on their accent, how close-minded!
@ayboyer you are a social worker how hard is it to be
"successful in your line of work" and yes they sound like hillbillies. They say it in the documentary. All of these people are hicks and should be pumping my gas.
@Kathari199 Appalachia produces statesmen, astronauts, MDs, and PhDs. I and my husband are both scientists (biology and chemistry). I was Phi Theta Kappa in college and maintained a 3.75 GPA. I speak Appalachian, Queens English with proper diction and dialect, Hebrew, and Spanish. I also performed in Master Works Chorale. Yet you feel we should pump your gas because of DIALECT? So, will that be regular or high octane Your Haughtiness? To borrow a fav phrase from the UK...Oh do piss-off!
@NoOptionsAvailable No. I meant Phi Theta Kappa. I was a single mother of three, having lost my husband some years earlier, and paying my own way through college. So in the interest of fiscal prudence, I did my first two years of college at community before transferring to a four (plus) year institution. I pledged to Phi Theta Kappa because of their devotion to scholarship, leadership, fellowship, and most importantly to service. I am still a very big fan of volunteerism to this day. =)
@Kathari199 Oh, I see now. I visited your channel, investigated your comments around you tube and now I understand. You are just a sad little troll in need of attention. Okay then here's a big ole' Appalachian bear hug fer ye! *MWWWAAAHHHH!!!!* (hug) Now quitch-yer bitchin and grab some swirl or jump in yer limo an don't let the door hit cha in th' arse. Toodles Troll! This conversation is ended.
@Kathari199 - so you judge yourself to be better than these fine folk just because of the way you talk? It don't matter... we'd change your flat tire and feed ya just the same, so's you can be goin' about your business. We got no use for ya here. And I'll allow we're a happier bunch than where you come from.
This is so true. People in West Virginia are the salt of the earth. We treat everyone as they deserve to be treated; as an equal. A stranger as a brother or sister, an elder as a mother or father. We enjoy helping people any way we can. It's unbelievably hurtful that we can be so helpful to people and still be ridiculed as hillbillies or uneducated hick. Our accents may be amusing at first but if you get past that, you will miss it when you leave.
genericusernames2 1 day ago
Good people, God bless em all...
Gorbachenko 4 days ago
I love it!! I'm from cali the way I speak do not have the character like most part of the US!
whtpumkin 1 week ago
These people kinda remind me of Puerto Rican jibaros. I mean the similarities are shocking.
Correa24bori 2 weeks ago
This is amazing. Language really is an organic and living thing.
keeblergraham211 2 weeks ago
POPCORN! :D
hipieman333 2 weeks ago
In a crazy time like this in our cities, its so refreshing watching this and I would love to visit the appalachians and be twenty years behind for a while.
tadowfromkc 2 weeks ago
Katniss and Peeta right thur.
Freedom4rmUs10 3 weeks ago
A boomer?!, Oh, that's a Warf Rat :)
OzClawhammer 3 weeks ago
Soady water!
OzClawhammer 3 weeks ago
Gotta love old popcorn sutton
WildTrikes 3 weeks ago
I'm of Appalachian heritage on both sides of my family. My granddad often uses the word JARENTLY (meaning generally)
AugustusRay 3 weeks ago
Nice to see such character and variety in this country.
pigjubby1 1 month ago
hope ya'll get that Texan drawl.
professorking25 1 month ago
I am proud to live in the Appalachians. There are many different dialects here in the East Tennessee mountains. It's a wonderful place.
Tara21Nicole 1 month ago 2
Horse at 2:12 is like whats up mah niggas..
JordoF6 1 month ago
Sounds like a mix of Irish,Lowland scot and english,Smashed together.
JordoF6 1 month ago
@JordoF6 That's exactly what NC Appalachian dialect is...rather how it originated.
dieselscience 1 week ago
Is the first guy Popcorn Sutton? That guy is a legend!
MrEugenalicious 1 month ago 3
Hahahahahahahaha, ahhhhhh haha hahahahahahahahahaha.
Fine folk.
CraigMrScott 1 month ago
wow, didnt know people still talked that way, thought it was some weird old fashioned way from cowboy movies, as dead as the old posh english
geordieinjapan 1 month ago
@geordieinjapan oh, you can find some very interesting accents in the USA. It seems like everyone from GB or Europe thinks all americans talk in only one of 2 ways,,,,,,,like george bush or a valley girl (california).......there are hundreds of American accents. In a country this large it is inevitable
inkey2 4 weeks ago
its sounds weird to hear this bein called weird lol this is how me an my whole family talks. hey youtube from east tennessee!
The350s10 1 month ago
Qualifies as a dialect?
Austyg 1 month ago
These seem like such lovely people. I'd definitely like to visit Appalachia someday.
deepsixty6 1 month ago
The phrase "si googling" cracks me up, its so funny!!! I wonder if this thick accent is what Suzanne Collins had in mine when she said Katniss in her book the hunger games had an Appalachia accent
AVERYOBRYAN 1 month ago
Delightful video! I would love to spend some time with these people.
7t8h4z 1 month ago
you are not 20 years behind the whole country. the rest justdont get it
jhiggi28 2 months ago
I use plumb all the time
caleb9608 2 months ago
I live in Southern Illinois and i am lucky enough to travel all over and what i find about accents and dialects is they vary everywhere and even just a few miles apart. Most of the people here at home came from E. Kentucky, E. Tennessee to work the coal mines and we still have that strong dialect. Tire is pronounced tar, y'all is common as well as yuins as is yuins goin to town? We are also very Scotch-Irish.
trucker5933 2 months ago
@trucker5933 its called ulster scots which i speak hello from northen ireland.
kidri0t 1 month ago
@kidri0t Hello Back!
trucker5933 1 month ago
Yeah I like my moped!!
awatercoloredlife 2 months ago 17
hillbilly white trash LOL
Descende from the orange rats who populate the north of my country. exterminate this scum
crotchdonkey 2 months ago
@crotchdonkey
They all originate right here in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire in the Scottish Lowlands, they have given the US half of its presidents compared to one Irish catholic.
ScottishLegendftp 2 months ago
@ScottishLegendftp of course they have given the US half their presidents......because they are white anglo saxon prod, like the presidents descended from the english. what is your point anyway?
crotchdonkey 2 months ago
@crotchdonkey
Nah, they are Ulster Scots not Anglo Saxon.
ScottishLegendftp 2 months ago
@ScottishLegendftp the ulster scots, who came from the scottish lowlands, were mostly anglo saxon. the highlands were populated mostly by descendans of the picts, who were gaelicised.
crotchdonkey 2 months ago
@crotchdonkey
Not what recent DNA testing shows, all Scots are largely Pict Saxon and Norse, no Gael anywhere.
ScottishLegendftp 2 months ago
@ScottishLegendftp What about Welsh, i.e. northern Goidelic British? Southern lowland Scotland is like England and Wales, a mixture of Welsh, Anglo-Saxon, Norse-Danish and French-Norman-Flemish. There's some Pict in Lothian and Gaelic in Ayrshire and don't forget the Galgaels! Us English are just as Celtic as everyone else in Britain even if most of us are unaware of it. Lowland Scots called themselves Inglis until c. 1400 but not many would recognise Anglian in their ancestry.
quarkwrok 2 months ago
@ScottishLegendftp well clearly there is gael somewhere, or else how would scottish gaelic exist?
crotchdonkey 2 months ago
@crotchdonkey
The Gaels settled on the uninhabited West coast islands, every time they tried to come inland the Picts and Saxons kicked their ass, ultimately they forged with the Picts, Saxons and Norse to create the first Kingdom of Scotland, however Gaels were in the minority.
ScottishLegendftp 2 months ago
@ScottishLegendftp There is evidence of gaelic encroachments into pictland. There are many placenames indicating gaelic influence. To say that Scots Gaelic was only spoken on the island is completely false.
crotchdonkey 2 months ago
I grew up in the hills of East Tenn and am Cherokee and Irish,I served during VeitNam and still sound southern with my accent proud of it being southern .With a degree and married 46 years
TheGoingwolf 3 months ago 3
i love this accent!!!
lambarini 3 months ago
I can't watch this without smiling. :)
MoJingly 3 months ago
@ NCLLP Thanks for the post, I am from Asheville,N.C. and have lived in florida for 30 years now. I miss the talk and the mountains. Plan on moving back soon!
melinda218 3 months ago
i've shared this video with my friends - maybe now they'll understand why i "talk funny". :)
mariadkins 3 months ago
hehe "plumb tuckered out". yeah :) my grandmother was fond of "i'll git to it dreckly".
mariadkins 3 months ago
suzanne collins (the hunger games author) said that katniss had this accent in the books
hallelujiah101 3 months ago
@hallelujiah101 yes she did but she got a lot about appalachia and coal mining and the people wrong.
mariadkins 3 months ago
Well I'm actually from Thailand but I spent a year as an exchange student in NC. I was surprised how local talked to me at first and had hard times understanding. It's just the same that they didn't understand my thick Thai accent. But you're right, those people are nice, honest and willing to help. I love Appalachian region and I love southern people :-)
TheLittleStarlight 4 months ago 8
@TheLittleStarlight: Glad you enjoyed your stay. Come on back anytime!
PooPoo2U 5 days ago
@PooPoo2U Thank you very much :-) I always dream of going back to North Carolina every day. I really miss the mountains and the nature ^_^
TheLittleStarlight 5 days ago
I, too, was born and bred in East Tennessee and I appreciate my hometown area. After moving away for 5 years, coming back reminded me of how hard-working, honest, and lovable the people here are. Maybe the language is hard for the "yanks" to understand, but it makes perfect sense to me. Like canisabc, I graduated magna cum laude and I'm intelligent. However, I've found IQ does NOT a "smart person" make. The *hillbillies* here have more common sense than a whole lot of "educated people".
amosfarkel 4 months ago 3
Up there it's si-gogglin'. Down here it's all kittywompus.
DissidentDescendant 4 months ago
Definitely Southern, no way out, even if it's also based in Nothern leaning states such as Pennsylvania.
220773 4 months ago
was that GOOBER ?
RickinFLA07 4 months ago
Aye Law,I guess I am not the only one who knows all these phrases! I grew up in Candler,NC.Not far (10 miles?) from where this was filmed =) When we lose these elderly folks,we will lose a part of our heritage :( I am 29,and my Granny is 85 and I love her dearly. I will miss her when she goes.
layhayla 5 months ago
I LOVE HIM! =) Pops we miss you darlin :) Daddy misses talking to you :( So do I pops =)
layhayla 5 months ago
DON'T BE A PECKERWOOD and just make fun... Heard a Brooklyn accent lately?
KEEP THE OLD SKILLS ALIVE! READ THE FOXFIRE MANUALS AND MAKE SUMPTHIN'. .... You can find them over yander in thuh libary. They are written exactly as they were dictated by our old "mountain folk" ,which makes them great..
kahtuh 5 months ago
Home sweet home :)
jakobmichaelcarson 5 months ago
great folks!
ropermrmeredith06 5 months ago
1:03
FUCK DA POLICE!!
TheMango121 5 months ago
I think all get a bad rap actually somewhat, anyway I think it would be awful to compound them with southerners anyway their mountain folk, not planes folk, mountain folk.
Spieldamelenium 5 months ago
Sounds like some of the old timers that live around me in western north carolina. Mountain folk.
MissInternetGuru 5 months ago
im jelous of all you folks living in the appalachias and the south, i get the impression you guys keep your old values and culture, not conforming to the rest of the country which is shit, (Id know im from california) you guys get a bad rap from the media and shit... i just tell em to shut the fuck up
RememberSoCal 5 months ago
That one guy at 6:10 looks like Dan Baird of the Georgia Satellites.
JawsJaws 5 months ago
Appalachian english has been researched and found to be derived from Ireland.
Then they traced the accent all around USA and found all southern accents comes from the Appalachian mountain area even what you hear from truckers and CB radio talkers. LOL The video is on PBS. After watching it was I like....WELL I BE DAMMED! LOL
inachu 6 months ago
My grandmother talked like this. She died in December. When I was a kid sometimes I'd ask my Dad, what the heck was she saying? lol. We miss her.
tsolorio3001 6 months ago
Thank GOD I was borne and raised in this part of the country. I wish it could stay like it was when i was growing up. But it is getting worse every year.
dbrab1 6 months ago
My mama always said hit for it, others she said ..haint for aint, dope for soda water, ye for you, fer meant far, yander for yonder, fer topper meant people who lived on the top of the mountain, poke meant sack, yore meant your, so many others I have forgotten through the years...I long to hear her sweet Irish talk again...I miss her ...and the mountains of Tennessee where my great great Irish grandparents first settled long ago. I love the fresh mountain air and simple way of life...
betmauiwind 6 months ago
sounds like australian
TheUnknownGrower 6 months ago
im not an american nor an English native speaker; however, i love the way Appalachian English sounds.
jovelnom 6 months ago 12
Music to my ears!
kazzieloo 7 months ago
Wonderful! I live in the mountain region of Maryland a stone's throw from West Virginia. We have many dialects within our state but the western region is in the Appalachian chain and we use many similar words as those displayed in this video.
terpfan042 7 months ago
I thought they only used poke in the North east of England! Nice to see it is used on the other side of the Atlantic too.
Kimmohangmoh 7 months ago
I thought they only used poke in the North east of England! Nice to see it is used on the other side of the Atlantic too
Kimmohangmoh 7 months ago
Many Southern Appalachian words are straight from Old English; 'hit' in place of it. Poke is from Chaucer. I recognize these words since I am from the Southern Appalachians, but I never heard 'si-gogglin'
Druidikal 7 months ago
im from vienna, austria and i cant understand anything
LiviusX 7 months ago
I understand everything said in this video, and I'm a Marylander by birth and raised.
secundadonna 7 months ago
we use the word "dope" where i come from too, it means something completely different though!
diddlysquat1993 7 months ago
Best part of this video by far: "yeah I like my moped" *takes off on moped.*
At any rate, sweet dialect. Sounds cool.
khalfnoise 7 months ago
I live in East Tennessee and I love stepping out on my back porch in the morning and looking over to the misty Smokey Mountains. I was born and raised here and I love my southern accent and it doesn't make me "stupid" or white trash. I am a college student majoring in chemistry with an emphasis in pre-medicine, I currently have a GPA of 4.1 and when I was in the sixth grade I had a reading level that matched a college senior's and I speak just like the people in the video. I love our accent.
canisabc 7 months ago 53
@canisabc
Well, I am a northerner with a 2.6 GPA. I am not stupid, just lazy.
kives1985 6 months ago 4
@canisabc not to burst your bubble but most "real" Universities don't allow for a GPA to be above 4.0... an "A" is an "A" at least at UT Knoxville... might be different at a non-accredited place or a community college
Choraligame 6 months ago
@Choraligame It's okay, your right. I go to WSCC and they don't post our grades until way after the semester has ended. I calculated the 4.1 from the scores my professors gave me. I don't have a problem admitting when I am wrong and I miscalculated. It's my 2nd semester and I didn't know about the 4.0 GPA cap. My grades were posted and my GPA is actually 3.9, which I will be bringing up before I apply to ETSU. You go to UT? I like the campus but it's still a little bit to chaotic for me.
canisabc 6 months ago
@canisabc I am an older guy i live in middle tennessee close to you probably and i love our accents as well and especially the old timers like the grandparents and such alot of my family still living that simple life me on the other hand i try to live as modern as possible being stuck in a small town it is hard though LOL like idk what i would do without my internet and my pc but then again it would be great to be off the grid entirely
APBTisBeast 5 months ago
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peachesnpeaches 4 months ago
@canisabc You have a 4.1 GPA? What grade scale is that based on? If it's an 11 point system, you would have a C-..... ?
peachesnpeaches 4 months ago
@peachesnpeaches Most likely canisabc goes to a school that uses by a 5.0 scale. Most, if not all Universities in the region he/she mentioned use that specific system. It would, in other words, be more like an A.
TerumiHana 4 months ago
@canisabc how do you have a 4.1 in college?!
TbredGrits91 4 months ago
@TbredGrits91
I don't. I corrected my statement. I am new to the world of college and I calculated my gpa just like I would have in high school. I calculated it as a weighted gpa and I shouldn't have done that. I now realize how stupid I have made myself sound. lol I wish I could edit that comment.
canisabc 4 months ago
@canisabc I understand! I'm southern as well and I always feel like people think we're stupid.
TbredGrits91 4 months ago
@canisabc You go to the heights!!! Never stop. Proud of your accomplishments and your love of your people.
hwiseman1 3 months ago
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joeschmo468 2 months ago
I understand every word :) I'm Texan -- we have some similar ways of talking :)
Yizlanu 7 months ago
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Lmao. He says, "You stand back and look at something and well, that thing's si-gogglin'. They say, 'I want you to look at that.' 'Well what is it?' if you're building some kind of.....well that's si-gogglin', right yonder! And say that old rode going up there...that's si-gogglin'!" He's side of all over the place, but that's what he said. I'm from rural western-southern VA, originally from Denver, so I've gotten used to these kind of accents. XD
italianoperamask 8 months ago
chewing gum - english ...
SpaceCowboy641 8 months ago
can anyone tell me what the guy said from 3:43 to 3:55?
nocs111 8 months ago
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italianoperamask 8 months ago
@nocs111 He says something along the lines of :
They'll stand back and look and they'll say "that thing's si-gogglin'." They'll say "I want you to look." and say "what is it?" if you're building some kind of a building and say "that's si-gogglin' right yonder." And the same if that old road is going up yonder. They'll say "'that thing's si-gogglin."
He's basically just saying that people use the term "si-gogglin'" to describe poorly built/ crooked buildings or winding roads; anything crooked.
LadyKateTheGreat 6 months ago
I have a few relatives that sound like this. I have weened myself from speaking like this for the most part, but it still comes out a bit when I get pissed off at someone.
randomvideoaccount4 8 months ago
Durp
ZachMac209 8 months ago
Interesting...where i live in the UK we say eving a a gog or gleggin at for having a look at. You folks should just value this. Here dialect changes lots in the space of 20 miles, so it's maybe in us to pick up on the differences and adjust to what folks are saying. It's what folks think that counts, not the way they say it.
kingsindiandefence 8 months ago 15
@kingsindiandefence yeah, it was the same way here before "roads" and the "21st century" came along. here in the mountains it was so isolated, that people one one side of a mountain spoke a little different that folks on the other side of the same mountain, and people that lived up in one "holler" (slang version of the word "hollow", as in a small sheltered valley) spoke a different dialect than people in another holler. (and anybody that says that there is a "correct" english..i say BULLSH*T)
Glaudge 6 months ago
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It's a way of life. You should value it as part of history, history grew it. I just read a book of short stories Hillbilly tales from the Smokey Mountains, by Patricia Graham, little snapshots of ways in these parts. Sineaters, conjuring rocks and shivarees, more part of America than Disneyworld, maybe. Rait miducks al get gooin as am late. That's how i talk from day to day. Local is what it is.
kingsindiandefence 8 months ago
do these people even know how to read? they sure don't sound like it.
mike7743 8 months ago
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kingsindiandefence 8 months ago
@mike7743 not called for ........ this is part of America ---- respect it
Yizlanu 7 months ago
@Yizlanu fuck off.
mike7743 7 months ago
@mike7743 bravo good old standard American english :)
Yizlanu 7 months ago
@Yizlanu lol, I'm humbled by your sense of humor.
mike7743 7 months ago
@mike7743 What does speaking a regional dialect have to do with someone's ability to read?
yurismir1 7 months ago
HA! I understood every word. Damn I love the south.
cizzam21 8 months ago
this accent is freakin legendary!
gargos25 8 months ago
I have lived all over place. I chose to come back to KY. Like she said, I'd just as soon be in hell with my back broke than live in any of the places I've lived. When I was living and working in California, New York and Chicago, I kept my KY accent. They made the mistake of assuming that my accent denoted low intelligence, their assumption resulted in my financial gain and their loss.
RCTPatriot75 8 months ago
I think my ears are bleeding now.
NoOptionsAvailable 8 months ago
accent does not determine intelligence. It just is that usually the thicker the accent the less education they have. Most people that go into higher education try and lose the accent in order to be more marketable
michael28150 8 months ago
@michael28150 accents may get more marketable in the future... uniquness is great... BTW this accent is awesome! :-)
gargos25 8 months ago
Did you know that "Mountain Talk" is the closest root of Shakespearean English? It completely changed my conception of the notion of an unclean language.
theatopera 9 months ago 4
@theatopera Yeah, did you also know that Shakespearean English has its roots in how SOME black people speak otherwise known as ebonics...that usually surprises most people.
mxzyspitlik 9 months ago
@mxzyspitlik
Ebonics was invented (yes, invented, prior to that black Americans spoke exactly like their white neighbours) in the 1900's. Claiming Shakespearean English was influenced by it is is an anachronism.
Ambiduros 5 months ago
@theatopera No, because it's not true. That's just a myth. There's nothing wrong with it either though.
yurismir1 7 months ago
Mom and Dad moved from NE Indiana down to central KY, She hated to go,thought people would be backwards, Both mom and dad couldn't believe how nice and helpful the people in KY are,
Both wished they would have moved down 40 years ago,
Great folks in the south,
EarlRausch 9 months ago 2
I could understand everything these folks said, but that's probably because I was watching them say it. When I lived in West Virginia, I had some real difficulties understanding certain people on the telephone. I guess it just takes getting used to.
evergreenpotato 9 months ago
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I've "purt neer" lost the dialect I grew up hearing my older family members speak, but the music of their language will live in me always. RIP Great Aunts Bertie and Frances.
TheTyranicus 9 months ago
I've "purt neer" lost the dialect I grew up hearing my older family members speak, but the music of their language will live in me always. RIP Great Aunts Bertie and Frances.
TheTyranicus 9 months ago
Lol --I hadn't thought of "Si-gogglin' " in years! In the area of eastern Tn. where I grew up we add the letter H to words that don't usually have it --as in H'yonder,H'ain't & H'it. Yonder ain't and it. :-) And of course H'ain't isn't to be confused with a haint..which is a ghost or spook.
therandyj 9 months ago
I think I'd fall in love with these people lol! I love their accents!
jemen19762010 9 months ago
I have a Upper Midwest accent. Most commonly known from the film Fargo. However, my accent is very weak compared to the folks that live in Northern Minnesota. Any woman or man over the age of 50 and living north of St. Cloud has a very deep "Fargo" accent.
EmeraldTriangle80 9 months ago
As an Appalachian and an English as a Second Language teacher, I sometimes use this to illustrate the diversity of English dialects. Really, I think that the Appalachian dialect, like much of the region, is maligned by the rest of the country and the local culture should be studied more.
mweens 10 months ago 3
Its popcorn.
jeabo0adhd 10 months ago
Well done to the documentary maker. This stuff could have been lost or forgotten. Most envious of those people and their lifestyles. Who else here is willing to admit it?!
gearoiddom 10 months ago
My whole family is from this region, and I understood every word. At least these people say what they mean and are who they say they are. What you see is what you get. Too bad the rest of the country isnt like them.
apatton85 10 months ago
My whole family is from this region, and I understood every word. At least these people say what they mean and are who they say they are. What you see is what you get. Too bad the rest of the country isnt like them.
apatton85 10 months ago
I tried for a job and i it was bilingual and the wanted to know what i spoke and i told them southern and english / i didn't get the job dangit
ernest302 10 months ago
I haint seed nary better-un than this. Thank ye Kindly.
94757598494309438 10 months ago
A lot of my relatives speak like this, but they aren't Appalachians. I guess they just have a really deep southern accent. I have one, but it's not as nuanced.
kittykatt1311 10 months ago
it seems these people are real southerners :)
MrAksakalli 10 months ago
My entire family is from the Appalachians(me excluded).
rimidalv47 10 months ago
that looks like the life
delta9999 10 months ago
I grew up in cabin creek, WV & of course I understood every single word! The majority of my family speaks just like that & I tend to do so when I'm drunk or sleepy lol. Watching MTV when I was younger caused me to purposely change the way I spoke as well as English class. Don't get me wrong now** I still adore my people!
aliciab27 10 months ago
Plum, Poke, Stout,Yonder, are all words spoken in England in past times. My Grandad would say "look yonder" "A pig in a poke" Interesting. I wonder how Americans spoke 300 years ago ?
ALBIONTYKE 11 months ago
Couldn't get nothing. I'm from Russian (native Russian) and interesting in English and it's accents.
I wanna tell u, that's it so f**** hard to recognize the meanings of familiar words!
Can somebody help me to handle with that, plz?
STUser100 11 months ago
7 peckerwoods
Cakerolled 11 months ago
Sody water<3
MartyMcflyGirl 11 months ago
My dads family are hillbillys.
Mamaw is real country she was born in a two room log cabin with no electricity.
holtridge 11 months ago
They talk like that in Swannee county Florida too.
purity4all 11 months ago
my mom's family is from Fentress, Tennessee, they sound like that too, even though i'm not sure if Fentress county is on the Appalachians
nitrate88 11 months ago
@nitrate88 - Barely but yes. Fentress County is on the western edge of the Appalachians.
DroverChicago 11 months ago
A lot of these words are just southern words. My parents were from GA and they both used words like this. I had to laugh at "poke" because my mom still uses that word to this day. But their ancestors did come from this are (NC) so I guess some of that moved with them. (And my granny always used to call Coke "dope." lol)
LisaBaby67 1 year ago
My grandpa was second generation Kansas farmer with family from County Cork, Ireland, and he'd always say "het up" instead of "heated up." Example: We're gonna het up some supper an eat.
gimmeapaw 1 year ago
yall come n go with us will watch the snake feeders n gather ramps n poke salad
nobanisnoob 1 year ago
God Bless you Popcorn
scottvsgi 1 year ago
I dwell mostly in L.A., but there's just something refreshing and comforting about these folks.
Wpatri04 1 year ago
@Wpatri04 I agree. Wish I was there but as a local not an outsider. Kind of comforting to think about their ease with being behind these chaotic times.
ToeIn2194 1 year ago
My mom and dad are from Kentucky. I understand every word they say.
awm4151 1 year ago 13
@awm4151 My dad's family is from Kentucky, and I understand them too.
jaywelch61 8 months ago
@awm4151 I'm from Romania , I'm living in Charlotte NC. I wasn't even born in the US and I still understand every word they say.
AndyMKordo 7 months ago
hill billy
CBlanchProduction 1 year ago
@10:12 He makes a good point. I live in a large city. I don't like my neighbors, don't associate with them. I don't want to get to know people and they don't want to get to know me, but I'm happy this way because people stay the fuck out of my business and I'm more than happy to stay out of theirs.
MyLuciferEffect 1 year ago
Poke.. that is interesting. The Icelandic word for bag or sack is 'Poka', pronounced almost the same.
TimmYayhooray 1 year ago
@TimmYayhooray Supposedly our use of "poke" stems from a hardened pronunciation of "pouch". (see the ch/k exchange between English "cheese" and Frisian "tsiis", vs German "käse" and Dutch "kaas")
Wodenhelm 1 year ago
You know this isn't all that far off from accents you hear in newfoundland, canada.
lulzwhot 1 year ago
Lots of folks in Oklahoma talk exactly like this. Pretty much all of my older relatives sound almost identical.
sanjuancb 1 year ago
@sanjuancb Yes, that's it! I JUST commented, saying the same thing (leaving out the Oklahoma part), but my folks are from Oklahoma too, and they sound identical to the Appalachian accent.
kittykatt1311 10 months ago
@kittykatt1311 Arkansas,Oklahoma and east Texas were settled by many ppl. From the mountains. So, yes it is a very closely related dialect. :-)
therandyj 9 months ago
I am stunned by the judgment of the people writing these messages. What makes people think that speaking Appalachian sounds uneducated? I speak "Hoosier" with a smattering of Appalachian. However, people listen to what I say, not how I say it, and I am quite successful in my line of work (I'm a social worker, but still, I am in administration). People do notice that I speak differently, but they don't focus on that. If ya'll are judging people based on their accent, how close-minded!
ayboyer 1 year ago 24
@ayboyer: You´re right. Don´t judge people by the language/accent they speak. I like how people speak English differently. Greetings from Germany!
Santeria78 10 months ago
@ayboyer you are a social worker how hard is it to be
"successful in your line of work" and yes they sound like hillbillies. They say it in the documentary. All of these people are hicks and should be pumping my gas.
Kathari199 9 months ago
@Kathari199 Appalachia produces statesmen, astronauts, MDs, and PhDs. I and my husband are both scientists (biology and chemistry). I was Phi Theta Kappa in college and maintained a 3.75 GPA. I speak Appalachian, Queens English with proper diction and dialect, Hebrew, and Spanish. I also performed in Master Works Chorale. Yet you feel we should pump your gas because of DIALECT? So, will that be regular or high octane Your Haughtiness? To borrow a fav phrase from the UK...Oh do piss-off!
aranelinya 9 months ago
@aranelinya Phi Theta Kappa is the junior college honor society. Did you mean Phi BETA Kappa?
NoOptionsAvailable 8 months ago
@NoOptionsAvailable No. I meant Phi Theta Kappa. I was a single mother of three, having lost my husband some years earlier, and paying my own way through college. So in the interest of fiscal prudence, I did my first two years of college at community before transferring to a four (plus) year institution. I pledged to Phi Theta Kappa because of their devotion to scholarship, leadership, fellowship, and most importantly to service. I am still a very big fan of volunteerism to this day. =)
aranelinya 8 months ago
@Kathari199 Oh, I see now. I visited your channel, investigated your comments around you tube and now I understand. You are just a sad little troll in need of attention. Okay then here's a big ole' Appalachian bear hug fer ye! *MWWWAAAHHHH!!!!* (hug) Now quitch-yer bitchin and grab some swirl or jump in yer limo an don't let the door hit cha in th' arse. Toodles Troll! This conversation is ended.
aranelinya 9 months ago
@Kathari199 - so you judge yourself to be better than these fine folk just because of the way you talk? It don't matter... we'd change your flat tire and feed ya just the same, so's you can be goin' about your business. We got no use for ya here. And I'll allow we're a happier bunch than where you come from.
FridayTN 9 months ago 3
@FridayTN Okay...just so a guy from out West can understand..."allow" means what here? "Guess?"
evergreenpotato 9 months ago