Appalachian English

[AllaN01Bear]

lt uhura you want to learn language , here you go.

[Glorfindel]

1. Yep, that's how we sound,all right. Sadly, the accent is fading away.

[FloridaDAR]

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]

2. Neat video

Thanks for posting!

[doc03]

4. Both of my parents were from WV, I heard most of those words when we would visit

relatives.

[Ocelot II]

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]

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.