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FloridaDAR

(3,725 posts)
3. Remember That Accent Well
Thu Jul 6, 2023, 07:01 PM
Jul 2023

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!

doc03

(38,115 posts)
4. Both of my parents were from WV, I heard most of those words when we would visit
Thu Jul 6, 2023, 07:39 PM
Jul 2023

relatives.

Ocelot II

(125,905 posts)
5. Interesting! There are so many interesting regional variations
Thu Jul 6, 2023, 08:00 PM
Jul 2023

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.
Thu Jul 6, 2023, 08:20 PM
Jul 2023

I am about 250 miles S. of the Appalachians.

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