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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAppalachian English
lt uhura you want to learn language , here you go.
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Appalachian English (Original Post)
AllaN01Bear
Jul 2023
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A lot of their "special" words and phrases made it to my part of the country as well.
Chainfire
Jul 2023
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Glorfindel
(10,136 posts)1. Yep, that's how we sound,all right. Sadly, the accent is fading away.
FloridaDAR
(3,725 posts)3. Remember That Accent Well
My family was from Eastern Kentucky, and while I grew up elsewhere, those were the voices of my youth. My grandmother spoke a really old dialect. The funny thing is my parents did not have that accent. I agree. It is fading away. But as long as we have gingerbread and soup beans, not forgotten!
Elessar Zappa
(16,335 posts)2. Neat video
Thanks for posting!
doc03
(38,115 posts)4. Both of my parents were from WV, I heard most of those words when we would visit
relatives.
Ocelot II
(125,905 posts)5. Interesting! There are so many interesting regional variations
in so-called "American" English that sometimes it hardly seems like the same language, or at least as different as Australian or Scots. I had to turn on closed captions to catch some of it.
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)6. A lot of their "special" words and phrases made it to my part of the country as well.
I am about 250 miles S. of the Appalachians.