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A-huntin' The Sources of Appalachian English
Backcountry Notes ^ | March 26, 2010 | Jay Henderson

Posted on 03/26/2010 7:00:19 AM PDT by jay1949

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To: Markos33

English folks speak the language almost as good as we do in East Tennessee.

Ain’t tat da gospul, Marc???


41 posted on 03/26/2010 7:51:50 AM PDT by Boonie
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To: Boonie
I’ve heard people accuse southern Appalachians as saying “crik” for creek...I’ve lived in the Tennessee mountains (not even 3 miles from the Smokey Mtns Nat’l Park) for 63 years...I’ve NEVER heard a person born and raised here say “crik or crick”...It’s always creek...

My husband is from Michigan and his whole family says "crick" for creek. In fact, there's a crick that runs along the western boundary line of their property.

42 posted on 03/26/2010 7:52:02 AM PDT by LatinaGOP
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To: RegulatorCountry

Yeah, but you gotta watch those uppity ones. They’re just a bunch of knot-headed peckerwoods.


43 posted on 03/26/2010 7:52:12 AM PDT by OB1kNOb ( I WILL NOT COMPLY !)
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To: Boonie; jay1949
My brother in law (mid 70's) grew up in smalltown Iowa and says "Crick" all the time - they lived for years in Walnut Creek, CA, so we were hearing it often.

He also pronounces his home state with a hard "a".....Ioway.

PS to Jay.....love your blog.

44 posted on 03/26/2010 7:53:08 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Would that be “Acadian”, Joe????


45 posted on 03/26/2010 7:53:59 AM PDT by Boonie
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To: Boonie
"Ain’t tat da gospul, Marc???"

Sho' nuff.

46 posted on 03/26/2010 7:54:18 AM PDT by Semper Mark (Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. - Aristotle)
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To: Boonie; mjp; OB1kNOb; Markos33; PAR35; RegulatorCountry; Genoa; Texas Mulerider; varina davis; ...

If you haven’t visited Blind Pig & The Acorn, I recommend you to go there for Tipper Pressley’s educational and entertaining series on speaking the language of Southern Appalachia. Start with Speak Like An Appalachian, http://www.blindpigandtheacorn.com/blind_pig_the_acorn/2008/04/speak-like-an-a.html then go to Speak Like An Appalachian II, http://www.blindpigandtheacorn.com/blind_pig_the_acorn/2008/08/speak-like-an-a.html and then work your way through the tests, starting with Appalachian Vocabulary Test http://www.blindpigandtheacorn.com/blind_pig_the_acorn/2008/11/appalachian-vocabulary-test.html and running to the most recent post, Appalachian Vocabulary Test 17 http://www.blindpigandtheacorn.com/blind_pig_the_acorn/2010/03/appalachian-vocabulary-test-17.html Music to my Backcountry-loving ears.

Also, I have two previous FR posts on this topic — http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2469507/posts and http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2470833/posts


47 posted on 03/26/2010 7:56:28 AM PDT by jay1949 (Work is the curse of the blogging class)
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To: TankerKC

Everyone seems to say I feel when they mean I think (and it bugs me) but I’ve only heard the extraneous “that” put in by people with southern accents.


48 posted on 03/26/2010 7:56:56 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Boonie

I up and read this whole thing!


49 posted on 03/26/2010 7:57:10 AM PDT by Kanzan
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To: Boonie
J Foxworthy....”If you’re naked, it means you got no clothes on...If you’re nekkid, itmeans you got no clothes on and you’re up to somethin’...”

If he said that, he robbed it from Lewis Grizzard

50 posted on 03/26/2010 7:57:25 AM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine Lance Corporal texted me at 0330 on 2/3/10: AMERICA!)
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To: varina davis
Goin’ to carry my folks to church. (carry — drive)

Never heard that growing up in east Tenn. I did hear it when I exiled myself to Georgia, from a native of North Georgia,

51 posted on 03/26/2010 7:58:56 AM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine Lance Corporal texted me at 0330 on 2/3/10: AMERICA!)
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To: ErnBatavia

crick....

Yeah...I wonder why Hollywood and some others try to pan that off as “southern mountains hillbilly speak”??

We’ve never said it... :o)


52 posted on 03/26/2010 8:00:08 AM PDT by Boonie
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To: don-o

You are so correct...my fault...I got the two humorists mixed up...BTW, I really miss Lewis Grizzard...


53 posted on 03/26/2010 8:02:21 AM PDT by Boonie
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To: All

“Don’t Bend Over in the Garden, Granny...Them Taters Got Eyes...”


54 posted on 03/26/2010 8:04:09 AM PDT by Boonie
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To: don-o; varina davis

I have often heard “carry” so used in the NC Piedmont — years ago, when I was a young’un — and have heard old-timers use it in Southwest Virginia where I live now. “I carried Lizzy to trade at the K-mark.” “Carried” meaning drove and “to trade” meaning to shop.


55 posted on 03/26/2010 8:04:30 AM PDT by jay1949 (Work is the curse of the blogging class)
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To: don-o

I’ve heard it some...not a lot...
I’ve heard “I got to haul my folks to church..” more....


56 posted on 03/26/2010 8:05:25 AM PDT by Boonie
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To: Boonie

crik

My mother had a couple of brothers who moved to Indianapolis. When they came back home, their young’uns, my cousins, called it a crik. We laughed at them.

Also, Mama told of neighbors back in the late 40’s / early 50’s who would move up north, Cleveland, Detroit for jobs, coming back in a couple of months and already adopting Yankee-speak and trying to correct their friends and family for the way they spoke.


57 posted on 03/26/2010 8:05:34 AM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine Lance Corporal texted me at 0330 on 2/3/10: AMERICA!)
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To: jay1949

Were you guys offended by Jed Clampett or did you find him amusing?


58 posted on 03/26/2010 8:05:55 AM PDT by DManA
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To: LatinaGOP

A lot of early Michigan settlers came from New England and upstate New York. Lots of available land for young farmers who weren’t going to inherit the family place.


59 posted on 03/26/2010 8:06:19 AM PDT by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: Boonie; ErnBatavia

Around here it’s pronounced “branch” ;>)

Hollywood Appalachian and Hollywood Southern provide me with a source of amusement. Especially considering that they come from people who go, like, uh, Southerners, uh, like, y’know, talk funny.


60 posted on 03/26/2010 8:06:56 AM PDT by jay1949 (Work is the curse of the blogging class)
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