I’ve traveled WV extensively, it is true many don’t speak English that a CNN turd would understand but this VA born and bred country boy understood them quite well.
Yes I heard you’uns, holler, crick and other nonstandard words used quite often. So what?
The Obama war on coal didn’t help the people of WV one bit but the speaking anal sphincter in the MSM will never admit that.
The people of WV ARE hardworking patriotic Americans and THAT is why the MSM must talk down at them.
Hack, spit.
I’m a recent transplant from NE Ohio.
A lot of people I work with are able to switch between “newscaster English” and the local flavor with ease, depending on who they’re speaking to.
I’ve started to pick up some of the local dialect. I keep pronouncing “wire” as “wahr” without realizing.
I think some of the local words are interesting. Like anything with four wheels that’s not a car, truck or tractor is a “buggy”. ATV = buggy. Shopping cart = buggy. I stopped calling our valley a valley because valleys are hollers here. If creeks aren’t criks then they’re runs.
You could write a whole dissertation on the variable meanings the phrase “bless her heart” can assume based on the context, inflection and perspective of the speaker.