I am from E. Ky and went into a small store with my grandfather to get something to drink. Grandpa was born in 1900 and asked for a ‘dope’. The owner got mad and ordered us out saying ‘We don’t sell that stuff here.’ I explained what grandpa meant and we got our drinks. Probably goes back to when Cokes actually had coke in them.
Another word you don’t hear anymore is ‘poke’, it means a grocery bag. Proper usage is ‘Reckon you could put that in a poke fer me?’
That’s great.
My family was traveling south through Alabama to Florida. We stopped at a gas station and heard the clerk say “We’re outta piper tails.” We looked at each other “piper tails?” As we talked about it for the next 20 minutes while back on the road we finally figured out she meant paper towels.
See my post #130. I grew up in rural NW Indiana with many friends and family from Magoffin County, and I find our mix of appalachian English and nasally Chicago vowels to be delightful, if an acquired taste. I’d be interested in your perspective.