[muir_redwoods]

for later

[Genoa]

Scots-Irish migrated down the Appalachians from Pennsylvania during the colonial period and became isolated there, avoiding later homogenizing of the language. There are similarities today between Appalachian speech and dialects of English still spoken in the UK. For example, some pronouncing the past tense of “eat” as “et.”

[Tax-chick]

Ping!

[Semper Mark]

Interestin’ thread ping.

[IrishPennant]

We go a fishing too.

[DManA]

One southernism that strikes my ear odd is instead of saying

I think da da da.

they will say

I feel like that da da da.

[stainlessbanner]

Dixie ping

We haven't had a good dialect thread in a while...post your southernisms

[mjp]

Scotch-Irish speech found in the Appalachians and the Ozarks is also called southern highland or southern midland speech.They say whar for where, thar for there, hard for hired,critter for creature,sartin for certain,a-goin for going, hit for it, far for fire,deef for deaf,pizen for poison,nekkid for naked, eetch for itch,boosh for bush.

[RegulatorCountry]

Mr. John Taliaferro

He has descendants in Surry County, NC. That surname is on a memorial at Guilford Battleground National Military Park.

[Madame Dufarge]

According to Fischer, the foundation of American culture was formed from four mass emigrations from four different regions of Britain by four different socio-religious groups. New England's constitutional period occurred between 1629 and 1640 when Puritans, most from East Anglia, settled there. The next mass migration was of southern English cavaliers and their servants to the Chesapeake Bay region between 1640 and 1675. Then, between 1675 and 1725 thousands of Quakers, led by William Penn settled the Delaware Valley. Finally, English, Scots, and Irish from the borderlands settled in Appalachia between 1717 and 1775. Each of these migrations produced a distinct regional culture which can still be seen in America today.

Albion's Seed

[PAR35]

I’m a fixin’ to bookmark this here thread.

[Boonie]

Jay...your threads really take off in here...I, for one, want to thank you so very much for what you do...It is extremely entertaining, and nostalgic...A lot of times, it takes me back to my childhood and the screen kinda blurs....

Thank you so much....

[VOA]

Every once in awhile magazine like “The Smithsonian” has an article about
the “English Langauge” of hundreds of years ago only now exists in
isolated places in Appalachia.

Myself, I smile a bit when I hear Senator Shelby say “beels”
for what most Americans call “bills”.
Interestingly, the pronunciation of “beels” is common to both whites
and “African-Americans” (trying to be sensitive here) in southern states.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

One that always caught my ear:

Northerner: I paid $500 for that car.
Southerner: I gave $500 for that car.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I grew up in southern Illinois and most of my ancestors came to Illinois during the Scots-Irish migration from the Carolinas. You can still hear traces of this speech pattern there.

Thanks for posting.

[Clemenza]

BTW: Since we are speaking of regional accents, let it be said that NOBODY from New Jersey says “Joisey.” Anybody who says that migrated from Brooklyn or Staten Island in New York. For a REAL North Jersey accent, see Anthony Bourdain.

[HighlyOpinionated]

http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v12/v12p114_Rosit.html

Albion's Seed

* ALBION'S SEED: FOUR BRITISH FOLKWAYS IN AMERICA by David Hackett Fischer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989, hardbound, 948 pages, illustrations, maps, index, $39.95. ISBN O-19-503794-4.

Reviewed by Nelson Rosit

This book is a comprehensive, almost encyclopedic, guide to the origins of colonial American culture. [And origin of regional language styles.]

According to Fischer, the foundation of American culture was formed from four mass emigrations from four different regions of Britain by four different socio-religious groups. New England's constitutional period occurred between 1629 and 1640 when Puritans, most from East Anglia, settled there. The next mass migration was of southern English cavaliers and their servants to the Chesapeake Bay region between 1640 and 1675. Then, between 1675 and 1725 thousands of Quakers, led by William Penn settled the Delaware Valley. Finally, English, Scots, and Irish from the borderlands settled in Appalachia between 1717 and 1775. Each of these migrations produced a distinct regional culture which can still be seen in America today.



I heartily recommend this book. HO/Carol

[Darnright]

Thanks for beginning this thread Jay. You may find the work of Shelby Lee Adams of interest:

http://shelby-lee-adams.blogspot.com/

Note to people not familiar with the natives of the Appalachian hill country. Mr Adams’ subjects are proud folks. They live differently than city people or those who live in the suburbs. Mr Adams was raised among these folks, and he treats them with utmost respect and dignity.

[eartrumpet]

Seems like Gary Cooper did a good job of speaking it in Sergeant York.

[snuffy smiff]

For those of you who love the sound of bagpipes:

www.celticradio.net/

Music to soothe the savage Celt!

No, it’s not “all bagpipes all the time”-they have traditional and the not so traditional-it’s a little of everything Celtic-and they do take requests!

Check ‘em out-you’ll be glad you did!