[Darnright]

Old time natives of Floyd County, Virginia pronounced the verb wash, as "warsh". In addition, the word, "it", was pronounced "hit". They also referred to "rinse", as "rinch", or "wrench". I've heard older people native to Bath County, VA use the same pronounciation.

[arthurus]

Old time natives of Floyd County, Virginia pronounced the verb wash, as "warsh". In addition, the word, "it", was pronounced "hit"

That's common but fading all through the mountains iin the southeast. Supposedly it is the last gasp of Elizabethan common speech. The settlers came early and stayed relatively isolated for a couple of centuries.

[Wampus SC]

"Old time natives of Floyd County, Virginia pronounced the verb wash, as "warsh". In addition, the word, "it", was pronounced "hit". They also referred to "rinse", as "rinch", or "wrench". I've heard older people native to Bath County, VA use the same pronounciation."

I heard those from old-timers in Henry County, VA, in the 50's. There, the past tense of "dream" was "dreamt"; when someone got killed in an accident, he "got deaded".